antiFRACK: Protest on HUMAN RIGHTS DAY

Earthlife Africa Cape Town are planning another anti-fracking protest on Human Rights Day, Wednesday 21 March, from 9h30 to 12h00 in Greenpoint Park. As 22 March is World Water Day, our protest seeks to highlight the threat that fracking poses to our basic human right to clean water.

Fracking uses water to extinction - the vast quantity of water needed in the fracking operation is permanently removed from the water cycle, and the waste water that is generated is so toxic to all life that it has to be permanently contained. South Africa can ill afford to squander its scarce resources in this way – our water demand could outstrip available supply between 2025 and 2030, and experts warn that increasing demand for water will place severe strain on our country's ability to supply this finite resource.

Gas companies do not have a safe way to clean and dispose of fracking waste water, and this has been the cause of more than a 1000 documented cases of contamination in the US. Municipal water plants are not equipped to deal with it. Vast volumes of frack flowback, combined with AMD and our already stressed waste water plants, spell potential disaster for this country.

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antiFRACK: Protest on HUMAN RIGHTS DAY

Wednesday, March 21, 2012

9:30am until 12:00pm

            Green Point Park

                  Cape Town, South Africa