Botswana faces questions over licences for fracking companies in Kalahari
▻http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/nov/18/botswana-accusations-fracking-kalahari
#Botswana has been accused of sacrificing the Kalahari, one of the world’s most precious wildlife reserves, to commercial fracking while ignoring the concerns of environmentalists and communities who could lose access to scarce water.
Yet for more than a decade, Botswana, lauded as one of Africa’s most stable democracies, has been quietly granting lucrative licences to international companies to carry out fracking in the fragile Central Kalahari Game Reserve (CKGR).
Some observers believe this is the most likely reason for President Ian Khama’s government fighting court battles to prevent the Kalahari #Bushmen, also known as the San, from returning to their ancestral land. The government denies this and says the prospecting under way should not be defined as fracking.
The Bushmen said they had no idea their areas had been earmarked for drilling until they were shown a map during the making of a new documentary film, The High Cost Of Cheap Gas , revealing that half the game reserve has been allocated to multinationals.
#énergie #accaparement #fracturation_hydraulique #gaz #terres