Cape Town protest adds fuel to the Shell seismic survey furore

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More than 100 people banged pots and brandished placards in front of a Shell garage in Cape Town on Saturday in protest against the company’s intentions to conduct a seismic survey off the Wild Coast.

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Glen Tyler-Davies said: “We want climate justice. The people who are bearing the brunt of the climate crisis need to make sure that energy is renewable. We should stop funding oil and gas.”

In a statement, the NGO Extinction Rebellion Cape Town urged “fuel distributors and other businesses to boycott Shell until such a time as they cancel their imminent seismic surveying of the water of SA’s pristine Wild Coast”. “Studies have shown a between 40% and 80% reduction in fish stocks in areas hit by surveying, which arguably contributed to the US ban of the practice along its eastern seaboard in 2019.

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