RE: Environment minister may lose power.

Please note the alarming report about proposed amendments to Environmental regulations which could have serious repercussions for the Wild Coast as well as the South African environment as a whole, as reported in the Mercury article below.

Actions you can take on this matter:

SWC call upon anyone with an interest in the matter to respond in all urgency
(no later than 22 August) and call for a revision on the bill and amendment, and a process of due public consultation before adoption, by sending objections to the amendment to the following:

d.zoekop@lando.co.za

mariette@acmegraphics.co.za

If you would like an e- copy of the bill, please contact:

Val Payn
SWC communications
Box 44
Harding
Tel 082 4416961
valpayn@gmail.com

Posted on August 21st, 2007
Filed under: SWC Comments