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fracking
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Enjoy This Farmer Spraying Manure At Emma Thompson Whilst She Demonstrates
12 May 2016 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Things didn’t go quite according to plan for Oscar winner Emma Thompson, a farmer taking exception to her baking efforts.
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Earthquakes Linked Directly To Fracking
08 Jul 2014 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
As usual, we as human beings need to wait for a bunch of researchers to confirm things we actually already knew. But now that it has the official stamp of scientific research and evidence, we can say with greater authority and certainty, Fracking is very, very bad!
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Agang Gets Destroyed In Business Day Column
13 May 2014 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
No topic gets more heated than political affiliation particularly in our beloved SA when race colours everything. A little bashing of political parties is to be expected post-election but this is a total annihilation of any legitimacy for Agang SA.
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Win 2 Tickets To Tonight’s Cape Town Premiere Of FrackNation [COMPETITION]
20 Jun 2013 by Jasmine Stone / 7 Comments
Daily Maverick columnist and advocate for fracking, Ivo Vegter will be presenting the Cape Town premiere of the documentary, FrackNation. The documentary (outlined in the video above) debunks damages attributed to fracking in a particular case in the United States. The screening is at 18h00 tonight, and tickets are still available at the door at a cost […]
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Massive American Oil Find Equal To “Entire World’s Proven Oil Reserves”
14 Nov 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 3 Comments
American drillers in Utah and Colorado are currently poking into a massive shale deposit in order to try and find a way to unlock the massive amounts of oil reserves hidden inside it. It is believed that the contents “equals the entire world’s proven oil reserves.”
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Ivo Vegter Talks About His New Book, Extreme Environmentalism
25 Sep 2012 by Seth Rotherham / No Comments
Ivo Vegter was on the Premier Show on 2oceansvibe Radio on Friday to talk about his new book, Extreme Environment. Click through for the interview about one of the most controversial books of 2012.
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Survey: Nearly A Third Of Young South Africans Believe Fracking Is A Sexual Activity
18 Sep 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Consumer insights group, Pondering Panda, said on Monday that nearly two thirds of young South Africans have little idea of what hydraulic fracking is about.
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Fracking Gets The Governmental Green Light
07 Sep 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 7 Comments
The moratorium on shale gas exploration, which was imposed in South Africa last April, was recently lifted, effectively opening the door for fracking in the Karoo region. Since the first mention of possibly using fracking as an extraction technique, debate has raged, with many calling into question the environmental impact it may have.
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Company Develops Waterless Fracking Technique
31 Jul 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 4 Comments
The controversial technique of hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, in its current form, may soon become a thing of the past. A company is busy guarding some rather interesting patents that promise to pave the way for safe fracking.
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Ivo Vegter Wants To Farm Rhinos And Frack The Karoo – SA’s Most Controversial Columnist On 2oceansvibe Radio
11 May 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Ivo Vegter is one of South Africa’s most controversial columnists. An outspoken defender of fracking in the Karoo, champion of free market policies and general hurricane of argument, the debate in the comments section of Ivo’s regular Daily Maverick columns often outstrips the length of the original piece by a healthy margin. Ivo visited the […]
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Fracking Critics Are Apparently “White, Rented Crowds”
18 Aug 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
The Karoo Shale Gas Community Forum said today that fracking critics are ignoring the needs of the Karoo’s poverty-stricken residents. Spokesperson Vuyisa Jantjies criticized those who oppose fracking by Shell, by saying: “If you have still the demonstrations that you have had, I will tell you that they’re purely white, rented crowds, that come and toyi-toyi in front of Parliament.”
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The Fracking Song [VIDEO]
12 May 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
The term “fracking” has been thrown around quite a lot recently. But do we really understand what implications this could have on our lives, or are the majority of us laughing because “fracking” sounds very similar to “fucking”? If you fall in the latter group, you need to see this video. It gives you all you need to know in under three minutes.
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Stand Up To Goliath – Lewis Pugh Challenges Shell In Remarkable Anti-Mining Speech [VIDEO]
31 Mar 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 6 Comments
Recently, news came to light that fossil energy giant, Shell Petroleum, was moving towards engaging in launching an environmentally devastating drilling expedition in the Karoo. The drilling procedure, which is ostensibly a search for natural gas, is known as Fracking.
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