NEW ORDER MINING RIGHTS FOUR YEARS INTO A NEW MINING REGIME BY CLAIRE TUCKER AND TWAAMBO MULEZA
Introduction
The Mineral and Petroleum Resources Development Act, 2002 ((MPRDAA) came into force on 1 May 2004 and ushered in a new regime for the exploitation of mineral and petroleum resources in South Africa. In line with this new regime, all rights to minerals and petroleum resources issued under the MPRDA are suitably referred to as new order rightss.
THE FUTURE OF CARBON TRADING IN SOUTH AFRICA BY CLAIRE TUCKER & SANDRA GORE
Background
South Africa and African industries have been slow in taking advantage of the Kyoto Protocolls potential economic and environmental benefits, particularly the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) and Certified Emission Reductions (CER) trading. Africa has only 25 projects, compared with 581 Asian projects. Ranked as one of the highest per capita carbon emitters in the world, South African industries could receive both substantial incomes and cleaner technology from CER trading and CDMs - at the expense of developed nationss industries.
NEW WASTE MANAGEMENT BILL CONTAINS FAR REACHING RETROSPECTIVE PROVISIONS REGARDING CONTAMINATED LAND
The most significant aspect of the Waste Bill released in January this year by the Department of Environmental Affairs and Tourism is the proposal to include a retrospective contaminated land provision.
At this point the proposed section on contaminated land is vague and has potentially very far reaching consequences for the acquisition and disposal of land in South Africa.
30 March 2007
THE INTERNATIONAL COMPARATIVE LEGAL GUIDE TO ENVIRONMENT LAW 2006
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