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Shell to blast the Wild Coast during Whale Migration Season

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At a time when world leaders are making promises and decisions to step away from fossil fuels because climate science has shown we cannot burn our existing reserves (let alone drill for more), offshore oil and gas Operation Phakisa is pushing ever harder to get its hands on a local supply of gas. Shell must answer for how the harms done during this survey and any exploration drilling done hereafter are part of its energy transition plan to control global warming.

Below you will see the notice that was placed today( 2 Nov 2021).

Project Reference: 720.19161.00001 File Ref. Shell Transkei Survey Notification Letter 29Oct21

29 October 2021

Dear Sir/Madam,

SHELL EXPLORATION AND PRODUCTION SOUTH AFRICA – NOTIFICATION OF THE COMMENCEMENT OF A 3D SEISMIC SURVEY IN THE TRANSKEI EXPLORATION AREA OFF THE EAST COAST OF SOUTH AFRICA

Notice is hereby given that Shell Exploration and Production South Africa has appointed Shearwater GeoServices to commence with a three-dimensional (3D) seismic survey within its Transkei Exploration Area off the East Coast of South Africa from the earliest on 01 December 2021.

The survey will be undertaken under Exploration Right 12/3/252 and will cover an area of approximately 6 011 km2 located roughly between Port St Johns and Morgans Bay. The survey area is located more than 20 km from the coast at its closest point in water depths ranging between 700 and 3 000 m (refer to locality plan in Attachment A). It is anticipated that the seismic survey would take in the order of four to five months to complete, depending on weather and current conditions.

Under the Convention on the International Regulations for Preventing Collisions at Sea, a seismic survey vessel that is engaged in surveying is defined as a “vessel restricted in its ability to manoeuvre”, which requires that power- driven and sailing vessels give way to a vessel restricted in her ability to manoeuvre. Vessels engaged in fishing are kindly requested to, so far as possible, keep out of the way of the seismic operation. Furthermore, under the Marine Traffic Act of 1981, a seismic survey vessel and its seismic array is protected by a 500 m safety exclusion zone.

Capricorn Marine Environmental has been appointed to provide the Fisheries Liaison Officer (FLO), Marine Mammal Observers (MMO) and Passive Acoustic Monitoring (PAM) services for the duration of the survey. Should you have any queries on the above, or require any further information on the planned survey, please do not hesitate to contact the undersigned.

Your sincerely,

Eloise Costandius

SLR Consulting (South Africa) (Pty) Ltd Email: ecostandius@slrconsulting.com

SMS / WhatsApp: 063 900 5536

Notification in the Daily Dispatch 2 Nov 2021
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  1. We should be putting up wind farms and solar. Not digging for oil. Can you imagine if there is a major oil leak into the ocean or fire. It will destroy the whole wild coast.

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  2. This is so disgusting!! Our planet and all animals and mammals on land and sea are so under threat !!! Shame on you Shell!!!!😡😡😡😡💔💔💔💔

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  4. Fossil fuels OUT! GREEN ENERGY IN. SA is one of the biggest coal and oil polluters in the world. Remember we”re trying to stop global warming. Let’s move SA forward not backwards. Prevention is better than cure. Shell doesn’t give diddly squat about SA just profit. Don’t fall for it please!

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  5. enough is enough. do not the disaster films of the future/ the scientific evidence/ constant news articles not show the oiutcome to our existence in the very near future if we do not stop destruction of this beautiful planet and its oceans. SHELL – you name embodies the name of a ocean garment/ home/…… Go Shell, GO HOME… leave it alone already

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  11. Fossil fuels are on their way out. Why destroy an ocean paradise for short term gain. I vigorously oppose further exploration in South Africa’s waters – especially pristine areas like the Wild Coast

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  12. Protect our sealife from the distruction of our oceans Shell should be ashamed This is a money game with plenty of greed

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  15. We urgently need RENEWABLE ENERGY SOLUTIONS such as off shore wind power generation and solar. NOT more Oil, Gas and Coal!
    We MUST SAVE OUR PLANET FOR FUTURE GENERATIONS!

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  19. Once you have broken this beautiful site it will be spoiled forever. This is pristine ocean and beautiful sea creatures that will killed and famed for life.
    If it’s only money that is at stake, it will stop millions of tourists having the opportunity to see this rare and priceless site.
    Save this coast and sea creatures

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  23. Say NO to Shell destroying our pristine Wild Coast with abundant sea life, whale routes, sardine runs.
    All will be destroyed and probably will never recover. Who is receiving a kick-back to give permission?

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    • Please sign the petition ShellOil-Off-Our-Coast at Change.org

      Also please register as an interested and affected party for the Shell and CGG seismic surveys . This can be done by emailing :
SLR Consulting (South Africa) (Pty) Ltd 
Attention: Eloise Costandius 
Email: ecostandius@slrconsulting.com 
Tel: (021) 461 1118 
WhatsApp / SMS: 063 900 5536 
Insist on confirmation and then make a comment as an Interested and Affected party

      We prefer that you make your own objection -becuase if we make one submission it is viewed as just that – 1 submission. Rather we prefer all supporters to register and make their own submission. That way the process takes longer and the amount of protest registers on the public record. please see https://oceansnotoil.org/2021/11/08/how-to-voice-objection-against-shell-and-cgg/

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  35. Shell…. This is outrageous!!! Stop this madness. The world is crying out to you oil corporations to stop exploring for more oil, and the Dutch court recently ordered you to reduce your carbon footprint, yet here you are about to carry out seismic testing on our beautiful wild coast. Why don’t you invest your billions of dollars in renewables and help us reverse global warming, rather than exacerbate it. This is our South Africa which we love, with one of the most pristine coastlines in the world which has remained untouched and unspoilt, and we intend to keep it that way. Please send your ship back home. We don’t want you here.

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  36. Shell…. This is outrageous!!! Stop this madness. The world is crying out to you oil corporations to stop exploring for more oil, and the Dutch court recently ordered you to reduce your carbon footprint, yet here you are about to carry out seismic testing on our beautiful wild coast. Why don’t you invest your billions of dollars in renewables and help us reverse global warming, rather than exacerbate it. This is our South Africa which we love, with one of the most pristine coastlines in the world which has remained untouched and unspoilt, and we intend to keep it that way. Please send your ship back home. We don’t want you here.

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  39. Shell leave our beautiful Wild Coast alone there is enough destruction to so many areas on this earth all in the name of greed.

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  41. How cruel, selfish and money hungry can humans be to do this to innocent marine animals!??? Really, stop this nonsense before it starts…!! Charlene

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  42. This is atrocious. When will you learn that fossil fuels are a no-no!!! Leave our beaitiful oceans and what wildlife w e have left, alone! Mankind has done enough to rape this planet through greed.

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  43. This is completely unacceptable, I would like our wild coast preserved for future generations. I am completely appalled by the disregard of our wild life and the disregard of our national heritage being destroyed and raped by large foreing companies and country’s and as a future parent I need to object to this barbaric distribution of nature and I didn’t this for me and my future offspring. STOP THIS BRUTALITY!! 😠😠

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  45. It’s just shocking and driven by greed alone.
    Please leave Mother Nature alone.
    We’ve done enough damage already.
    Rather focus on some social responsibility programme to try and heal the damage instead of creating more of it.

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  46. This is an absolutely idiotic thing to do, especially in these times. Everyone should be thinking of preserving life instead of destroying it. I strongly object to the trashing of our oceans by greedy people

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  49. This is backward … in so many ways, we have to do better know that we know better. Please stop the madness and desist from this seismic survey that will torture creatures and disturb local daily income.

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  50. Are you absolutely insane, in RSA governmental bodies, and also (SHAME ON YOU!) Shell to be proposing this and allowing it to happen?? All studies and evidence point to massive traumatic reduction of marine populations, serious damage to protected species, and especially detrimental impacts to whales and dolphins. shocked and disgusted.

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