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South Africa, the world’s seventh-largest coal producer, faces a climate challenge that has largely flown under the radar: methane emissions from coal mines.  (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)

Governments’ fossil fuel production plans threaten Paris climate goals, new report warns

It finds that the fossil fuel output will exceed 1.5°C limit by 120% by 2030

According to Minister  Ntshavheni, the miners were stuck in the depths of the earth, which was their own doing, and the state would not be involved in any rescue of “criminals”.

Stilfontein miners have human rights just like you, Minister Ntshavheni

Marikana was a precursor to Stifontein and show the lengths to which the state would go to punish people in protection of corporate interests, particularly in the mining industry

After the stall during 2020’s pandemic, travellers have come storming back exponentially each year

Blood dollars to water pistols: Tale of the unwanted tourist

After the stall during 2020’s pandemic, travellers have come storming back exponentially each year

Sangomar FPSO (Artist impression)

Production starts at Senegal’s first offshore oil field

Artist impression of oil from the Sangomar field

Engineering teams use the world’s largest crane – Big Carl – to lift a 245-tonne steel dome onto Hinkley Point C’s first reactor building, at the nuclear power station construction site in Bridgwater, Somerset on December 15, 2023. (Photo by Ben Birchall/PA Images via Getty Images)

UK unveils plans for ‘biggest nuclear power expansion in 70 years’

The government says it is committed to the 2050 net zero target but announced last summer it will issue ‘hundreds’ of new oil and gas licences in the North Sea

Let the people judge: Activists march from Hanover Street in Cape Town to parliament demanding that the government respond to the climate crisis and their environmental rights are not trampled by multinational corporations’ gas and oil explorations. Photo: Jaco Marais/Gallo Images

Don’t ignore people in oil, gas surveys

It is evident that the country needs a reworked mining and environmental management regulation framework

Aliko Dangote, Africas richest man, plans to spend more than his net worth of $13.5 billion building one of the worlds biggest oil refineries. Photographer: Tom Saater/Bloomberg via Getty Images

New refinery may transform Nigerian economy, if it gets enough oil

When it comes to oil projects, the country already boasts a herd of white elephants

Sea change: Climate activists bearing anti-TotalEneergies placards (above) picket in Cape Town. Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment Minister Barbara Creecy (left) has released her department’s draft offshore oil and gas sector plan. (Brenton Geach/Gallo Images & Islam Safwat/Getty Images)

TotalEnergies gets green light to drill for oil, gas on Cape West Coast

Civil society organisations say the decision comes as a disappointment

President Yoweri Museveni condemned what he described as a “cowardly act” and vowed the assailants would pay with their lives.
President Yoweri Museveni condemned what he described as a “cowardly act” and vowed the assailants would pay with their lives. (Photo by John Ochieng/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Uganda launches disputed oil programme

Uganda’s oil is expected to flow in 2025, two decades after reserves were discovered in one of the world’s most biodiverse regions

As expected, COP27 was an exercise in avoidance and blame-shifting, where the world’s largest fossil fuel polluters, the oil and gas industry, got away scot-free

Conferences such as COP27 are nothing more than elite junkets

Government- and corporate-driven summits to address the actions of climate-destroying extractive industries promote inequality

Screening of US Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry message during the closing day of the C40 World Mayors Summit Buenos Aires 2022 on October 21, 2022 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. (Photo by Gustavo Garello/Getty Images)

US COP27 envoy: Get African countries the money they need to fight climate change

But some African countries plan to push for investment in oil and gas exploration at COP27 in Egypt this month

New UK prime minister Liz Truss gives her first speech at Downing Street on September 6, 2022 in London, England. The new prime minister assumes her role at Number 10 Downing Street after defeating fellow Conservative Rishi Sunak in the contest for party leader. (Carl Court/Getty Images)

Liz Truss: New UK prime minister’s links to right-wing think tanks

MP says Truss could be a ‘puppet’ for ‘dark money’ groups that have already generated a dozen of her policies

A nation cannot continuously live in fear; there comes a time when leaders, the people and the country to take a stand. Photo: Timothy A Clary/AFP/Getty Images

US to send Ukraine precision guided weapons to bolster Ukraine forces in the country

The US is attempting to help Kyiv’s war effort while not being seen as a direct belligerent

Drug testing policies must comply with the law, as well as be fair and respectful of employees’ rights, protecting both them and the company. Photographer: Waldo Swiegers/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Bricks and biofuels: Cannabis can grow South Africa

Two promising uses of hemp are the manufacturing of “green” biofuels and the building of low-cost and sustainable housing

The South African Petroleum Refineries, which boasted 35% of the country’s crude oil-refining capacity, announced that production had stopped at the end of March. Photo: ALEXANDER JOE/AFP via Getty Images)

Africa low on refineries, including oil-producer Nigeria

Because of their lack of oil refineries, African countries become vulnerable to fluctuations on global markets

A woman waves a Canadian flag during the Convoy for Canada protest on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, Ontario, on February 19, 2019. – A convoy of big trucks from Canada’s oil producing regions rolled into the capital Tuesday as hundreds of people including “yellow vest” activists rallied in protest at government curbs on pipeline construction. Parked outside parliament, they honked horns and waved placards reading “Canadians need pipelines and good paying jobs,” as they pressed for new regulations allowing the industry to expand.”This country was built on natural resources,” Ottawa area farmer and former politician Jack MacLaren told a cheering crowd. (LARS HAGBERG/AFP via Getty Images)

Canada’s flag flutters over crude oil exploration in the Namibia, Botswana Kavango Basin

The oil and gas lies under wild and beautiful land that is critical for providing millions of people with drinking water and livelihoods, and is home to endangered wildlife

Despite its status as the world’s largest humanitarian disaster, the international community has largely failed to respond in a meaningful way to the carnage. (Photo by Daniel LEAL / AFP) (Photo by DANIEL LEAL/AFP via Getty Images)

Putin’s war in Ukraine enriches some Africans

Miners of rare metals will score but the soaring oil price will result in various cost-of-living increases

Community empowerment: A performance group connected to the Extinction Rebellion group joins hundreds of other people protesting against Shell’s plan to conduct underwater seismic surveys along South Africa’s Wild coast coast, at Muizenberg Beach, Cape Town. (Rodger Bosch/AFP)

The business case for environment, social and governance criteria

ESG performance presents an opportunity for involving communities in the decision-making process and reducing costs that might emerge down the line from litigation and fines

If high fuel prices are so painful, we should move away from fossil fuels

Not only is it possible to switch to renewables, but it’s also cheaper and would make economies less vulnerable. Yet, bizarrely, politicians and the fossil fuel industry, who are…

Members of the South African Russian association together with Ukrainian and Lithuanian nationals  demonstrate in Mandela Square in Sandton, Johannesburg, on February 27, 2022 against the Russian invasion of Ukraine. (Photo by LUCA SOLA / AFP) (Photo by LUCA SOLA/AFP via Getty Images)

Asian markets fall and oil extends rally as Ukraine war rages

The crisis comes just as uncertainty was rising owing to surging prices caused by a spike in demand for oil, tight supplies and pandemic-induced supply chain snarls, among other…