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The battle between environmental and human rights organisations and Shell played out at the Grahamstown High Court in Makhanda on Wednesday in a bid to prevent the fossil fuel company from commencing seismic testing along South Africa’s Wild Coast.

This followed an urgent court application to the same court on Tuesday and a myriad of protests as well as online petitions from ocean lovers across the country.

They argued that the ecologically diverse and sensitive marine environment of South Africa’s Wild Coast, particularly situated in the Eastern Cape, would be harmed. In his preliminary answering affidavit, Hloniphizwe Mtolo, chairperson of Shell companies in South Africa, said that the company had been given approximately 24 hours to respond to voluminous founding papers, and so its response was prepared under extreme time frames.

He added that the impression was regrettable, misleading and based on incorrect facts and fear-mongering half-truths.

 

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