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South Africa’s current legal system for environmental management in mines are creating duality and friction between the Department of Mineral Resources (DMR) and the Department of Environmental...
Companies undertaking environmental-impact assessments (EIAs) need to ensure that the environmental specialists employed or hired are adequately skilled and experienced in their assigned field of...
The instrument through which the South African government seeks to tackle air quality management issues is the National Environmental Management: Air Quality Act (NEM:AQA), No 39 of 2004, which...
The same level of legal certainty of interpretation and of meanings of the environmental statutes, as is found with older laws such as company law, cannot yet be offered to students studying...
Climate change is no longer just a topic of conversation amongst the bunny huggers over a cup of green tea. In fact, some argue that those who still dispute the human contribution to climate change...
Until recently, air quality was largely managed by the Atmospheric Pollution Prevention Act, 45 of 1965 (APPA) and regulations made under that Act which were adopted by some, but not, all...
The attempt to align the registration certificates issued under the now repealed Atmospheric Pollution Prevention Act (APPA) No 45, of 1965, with the licensing provisions of the newly implemented...
The lack of legislative coordination between the Ministry of Water Environmental Affairs (MWEA) and the Department of Mineral Resources (DMR) is resulting in the postponement of mining projects and...