UPSTREAM SECTOR Ramaphosa signs petroleum Bill as SA lags behind neighbours in hydrocarbon race 3 min 2 By Ed Stoddard
ENERGY SCRAMBLE A $130bn baby - gas is the new gold on Africa’s hydrocarbon front 4 min 2 By Ed Stoddard
BATTLEGROUND ANTARCTICA ‘Gentleman’s agreement’: Despite mining ban, Russia scours Antarctica for massive fossil fuel deposits 10 min 2 By Tiara Walters
ALTERNATIVE ENERGY OP-ED The missing link in a just energy transition — the case for biofuels and bioproducts 5 min 1 By Yusuf Isa and Thokozani Majozi
ENERGY TRANSITION Pitting non-renewables against renewables downplays the role of fossil fuels in the energy mix, Mantashe tells conference 7 min 31 By Ethan van Diemen and Kristin Engel
BATTLEGROUND ANTARCTICA It’s snow joke — Russia’s noisy Antarctic seismic ship is coming to Cape Town 9 min 2 By Tiara Walters
BATTLEGROUND ANTARCTICA ‘Hands OFF Antarctica!’ Activists condemn SA arrival of Russia’s noisy oil and gas ship 12 min 1 By Unknown Author
CLIMATE CRISIS ‘Drill, baby, drill; gas, baby, gas’: African energy ministers solidify pro-fossil fuel position ahead of COP27 7 min 1 By Ethan van Diemen
DOSSIER: BATTLEGROUND ANTARCTICA (PART TWO) Heatpocrisy: The ‘mining ban’ exposing Antarctica to Big Oil’s blind ambition 18 min 0 By Unknown Author
BATTLEGROUND ANTARCTICA Russian polar vessel arrives in Cape Town as pact aims to quell tensions 11 min 3 By Tiara Walters
LETTER TO EDITOR Seismic surveys: South Africa cannot afford the luxury of refusing to develop valuable resources on which it sits 7 min 9 By the board of HCI
OFFSHORE OIL EXPLORATION The Ozzies are coming: Activists gear up for the next seismic survey battle - in Western Cape waters 2 min 8 By Ed Stoddard
DOSSIER: BATTLEGROUND ANTARCTICA (PART ONE) Using Cape Town as a launchpad, Russia boasts of supergiant oil fields in Antarctic wilderness 7 min 5 By Tiara Walters
DOSSIER: BATTLEGROUND ANTARCTICA Heatpocrisy Explained (Part Two): Inside the rich and powerful nexus sizing up Earth’s last unmined frontier 2 min 0 By Tiara Walters
DOSSIER: BATTLEGROUND ANTARCTICA Explained: Russia’s 500 billion-barrel bombshell in Earth’s last unmined frontier 8 min 0 By Tiara Walters
OUR BURNING PLANET: NATURE’S DEFENDERS Rachel Carson: The quiet woman who ignited the environmental movement 6 min 2 By Don Pinnock