New Fees Payable for Environmental Authorisations and Waste Management Licences

The Minister of Water and Environmental Affairs has published two sets of draft regulations in terms of the National Environmental Management Act (“NEMA”) and the National Environmental Management: Waste Act (“NEMWA”). The draft regulations, which are very similar to each … Continue reading

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Will future generations pay for the products you purchase today?

Out of mind, out of sight? – this is the mantra that most of us either knowingly or unknowingly subscribe to when purchasing, consuming and disposing the products that sustain us. Generally speaking, we have no idea where the products … Continue reading

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Fracking Could Seriously Affect Karoo’s Property Values, Says Attorney

Commenting on the ongoing controversy regarding Shell?s proposal to initiative ?fracking? for the recovery natural gas from subterranean shales over 90 000 sq km in the Karoo, Garth Watson, a Director of Gunstons Attorneys, has drawn the attention of those concerned and involved to the fact that, under certain sections of the National Environmental Management:Waste Act, 59 of 2008 (currently not yet in force, but which are due to implemented at an unknown future date), the owners of land that is, or may be, contaminated can be held liable for both a comprehensive professional assessment of the contamination situation and all measures deemed necessary to rectify matters. Continue reading

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