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Environmentalists don’t give a frack about this Rhino

30 September 2019 - 08:00 By Katharine Child
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Rhino has long made headlines and been dragged to court to stop its continued aerial and desktop exploration of much of KZN, the Free State and the Eastern Cape.
Rhino has long made headlines and been dragged to court to stop its continued aerial and desktop exploration of much of KZN, the Free State and the Eastern Cape.
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“They give with one hand and klap with the other.”

This was the reaction from antifracking activists after mining company Rhino Oil and Gas Exploration SA withdrew its application to explore large stretches of the KwaZulu-Natal midlands for oil, coalbed methane gas, liquid gas and helium – and then applied for the rights to explore 4,268 farms in the Free State and KZN-Natal.

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