Recent news worth knowing relating to environment issues across the globe.
Reminder: Greenhouse gas and other emissions reporting for 2021 This notification serves to remind all data providers of the 30 March 2022 deadline for applicable […]
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Every year the entire EIMS team heads out of town for a few days to refresh and have a good time! This year we decided […]
Read MoreThe Endangered Wildlife Trust’s Drylands Conservation Programme (EWT-DCP) recently embarked on a five-year project in partnership with the United Nations Development Programme and the Department […]
Read MoreOn 11 October 2017 in Government Gazette 41175 Notice Number 1094 the Minister of Environmental Affairs published amendments to the List of Waste Management Activities that […]
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The Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf), in partnership with the Department of Science and Technology (DST), hosted an event on the shale gas […]
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“Transnet has commissioned its upgraded 55 km multiproduct pipeline, which will enable it to move four petroleum products from Durban to Johannesburg. When the 24-inch […]
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The Minister of Environmental Affairs has gazetted her intention to appoint EAPASA as a registration authority in terms of section 24H(3)(a) of NEMA for a […]
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Yesterday, the interdict application launched by the coalition of eight organisations challenging the proposed coal mine by Atha-Africa Ventures Pty Ltd inside the Mabola Protected […]
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PERTH (miningweekly.com) – Mining giant BHP Billiton on Friday reported that the tailings spill at its Samarco joint venture, in Brazil, was significantly less than […]
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As much of South Africa battles a drought, the City of Cape Town has, effective January 1, implemented level-two restrictions on water use to preserve […]
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Among a sample of 30 top U.S. exploration and production (E&P) companies, risk management disclosure practices have improved since 2014, but more work needs to […]
Read MoreThe Northern Territory’s Environment Minister is recommending a government inquiry into the use of fracking in the oil and gas industry. There’s been growing concern […]
Read MoreEIMS served as the independant Environmental Control Officer on the Caledon Wind Energy Facility which recently started generating electricity. Click here for a recent media […]
Read MoreSouth Africa’s government delayed the implementation of a planned carbon tax to 2016, while saying it may impose new levies on mining companies to help […]
Read MoreThe list of fees applicable to all applications for Environmental Authorisations (EIA’s) and Waste Management Licences (WML’s) has been gazetted and will be implemented as […]
Read MoreExploration for shale gas in the Karoo has taken another step, with the final regulations being consolidated, Water and Environmental Affairs Minister Edna Molewa has […]
Read MoreThe Eastern Cape Department of Economic Development, Environmental Affairs and Tourism (DEDEAT) and Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University (NMMU) said this week that their baseline study […]
Read MoreCement is to concrete what flour is to cake. Normally, cement and its mineral compounds make up roughly 15% of concrete (in volume), with stone, […]
Read MoreIndependent power producer (IPP) BioTherm Energy has confirmed that its two 10 MW solar photovoltaic (PV) facilities, Konkoonsies and Aries, have officially entered into commercial […]
Read MoreWhen the National Environmental Management: Waste Act, 59 of 2008 (“NEMWA”) came into operation, in July 2009, the operation Part 8 of Chapter 4 (the […]
Read MorePresident Zuma’s Cabinet announcement on Sunday, 25 May 2014 looks like a mixed bag for environmental rights. It is, of course, too early to tell […]
Read MoreCape Town – There is no rush to fast-track the environmental impact assessment (EIA) report for South Africa’s first new nuclear power station, a senior […]
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