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Image source, EPA. A South African court has halted oil giant Shell’s seismic testing for oil and gas along the country’s eastern coastline, pending a final ruling. In his ruling, High Court Judge Gerald Bloem said that Shell’s right to explore the waters near the Wild Coast “Was awarded on the basis of a substantially flawed consultation process”. In Tuesday’s ruling, Justice Bloem said that experts had testified to the damage the testing could cause and Shell had not sufficiently challenged that.
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