When a corporation wraps itself in the language of human endurance while polluting the air that athletes breathe, we should name it for what it is. A lost opportunity.

On 25 June 2026, The Green Connection welcomed the West Coast District Municipality’s decision to reject Transnet Port Terminals’ application to renew an Atmospheric Emission Licence (AEL) for the Saldanha Iron Ore Terminal.

On Tuesday afternoon, the Western Cape High Court concluded a two-day hearing in the ongoing legal challenge by Aukotowa Fisheries Primary Co-operative, The Green Connection and Natural Justice (the Applicants) against the State and TGS Geophysical Company UK Ltd.

This Energy Month, the legal challenge between Aukotowa Fisheries Primary Co-operative, The Green Connection, and Natural Justice (the Applicants), and the government together with TGS Geophysical Company UK Ltd (the Respondents), concerning authorisation for offshore seismic surveys along South Africa’s West Coast and Northern Cape coastline, has entered a critical new phase.

The Green Connection and Natural Justice have welcomed the decision by the Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA) to defer a decision whether to grant leave to appeal and direct that a further leave to appeal application by Shell and the State be heard together with the merits of the appeal, in a consolidated hearing, in the ongoing legal challenge against offshore oil and gas exploration in Block 5/6/7 off South Africa’s south west coast.

April 1, 2026 FINALLY, ENERGY DECISIONS THAT PUT THE PEOPLE AT THE CENTRE – APRIL FOOL’S In a surprising but much welcomed announcement yesterday, government confirmed it will immediately halt all new oil and gas projects, focusing on climate change and redirecting investment into a bold and fully funded just transition which places household energy