FOOD VS FUEL Mpumalanga Highveld battle looms as farmers resist gas drilling plans 6 min 1 By Tony Carnie
POLITICALLY AWEH SA’s surprise environment minister vows efficiency, green projects and no fracking 3 min 0 By Politically Aweh
DESERT BREAKING POINT Karoo Dust Bowl (Part III) — drought-battered Richtersveld farmers fear destructive creep of mining 8 min 1 By Leonie Joubert
Business Maverick Botswana’s mining cadastre reveals hydrocarbon scramble in iconic Kalahari game reserve 6 min 2 By Ed Stoddard
THE WEEKEND WRAP #8 How Putin's war on Ukraine could and should end, oil and gas exploration mooted in the Free State, and Sea Point in the coolest spotlight 4 min 0 By Daily Maverick
FOSSIL FUEL Farmers’ alarm over Free State drilling plans — despite ‘no fracking’ pledge by Rhino oil and gas company 7 min 3 By Tony Carnie
HYDRAULIC FRACTURING New moves to update fracking regulations alarm environmental activists 3 min 0 By Onke Ngcuka
THE CONVERSATION SA’s proposed fracking regulations need to do more to protect groundwater from contamination 4 min 1 By Surina Esterhuyse
FASTEN YOUR SEATBELTS Flying into a rage – Gayton McKenzie’s Karoo airport row could land in court 4 min 8 By Vincent Cruywagen
CENTRAL KAROO FILES ‘I will run for President in 2024’, Central Karoo Mayor Gayton McKenzie says after 100 days in office 5 min 1 By Vincent Cruywagen and Suné Payne
GUEST ESSAY Could bitcoin mining actually be good for the environment? 4 min 0 By Steven Boykey Sidley
ENVIRONMENTAL VICTORY Relief for more than 6,000 farmers as gas exploration application is withdrawn 6 min 1 By Julia Evans
BOOK REVIEW Big Pharma, Dirty Lies, Busy Bees and Eco-Activists may be one of the most important SA books published in 2020 3 min 0 By Don Pinnock
OFFSHORE EXPLORATION Planned seismic survey by Shell has kicked up a storm in South Africa. Here’s an explainer 6 min 5 By Mia Wege, Barend Erasmus, Christel Dorothee Hansen, Els Vermeulen, James Roberts, Jean Purdon and Michael John Somers
ENERGY POLICY Gwede Mantashe punts nuclear and Karoo shale gas in address to NUM 3 min 21 By Ed Stoddard
OUR BURNING PLANET OP-ED Canadian firm ReconAfrica’s quest for Namibian oil and gas poses seismic risk to elephant behaviour 10 min 1 By Annette Hübschle and Sophie Rathmell
OUR BURNING PLANET OP-ED Bob Scholes’ last warning on the Kavango Basin: ‘The wildcatters are coming’ 5 min 3 By Elana Azrai
Maverick Citizen Analysis Tax ‘reform’, Covid-19 and growing inequality fuel Colombian uprising 5 min 0 By Laura Brown
OP-ED Paradise is closing down: The ghastly spectre of oil drilling and fracking in fragile Okavango Delta 7 min 6 By Andreas Wilson-Spath
