TAKE ACTION HERE NOW! Local activists in South Africa are protesting now on the ground against fracking [ search ], and they need our support. Large parts of South Africa’s beautiful, but water-poor and ecologically sensitive Karoo [ search ] desert, are under threat of devastation by natural gas drilling operations using the increasingly notorious, controversial and ecologically devastating technique called hydraulic fracturing or ‘fracking’.

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