Frack Free Namibia

Campaign to keep oil in the ground in Namibia. No to fossil fuel extraction in northeastern Namibia! We cannot eat money or drink oil!

[Frack Free Namibia @FrackFree_NB]

Namibian NGO #FrackFreeNamibia has submitted an objection to #ReconAfrica's expanded drilling and seismic surveying programme. We raise objections on the following grounds:

1) The current updated EIA is based on a deeply flawed initial EIA process and as such cannot be updated

[Frack Free Namibia @FrackFree_NB]

In spite of finding #no #oil during exploratory drilling on community-owned farms and community conservancies in Namibia’s Kavango regions, #ReconAfrica is drilling again. When will the Namibian government wake up and #SavetheOkavangoDelta?

[LAUDATO SI’ MOVEMENT - Africa @LSM_Africa]

🚨 Controversial Canadian oil and gas company @Recon_Africa has resumed its extensive drilling operations in Namibia's Kavango regions. We cannot allow the people and rich biodiversity of Kavango and Okavango to be sacrificed for fossil fuel profits. #SaveTheOkavango

[Niall McGee @NiallCMcGee]

ReconAfrica cancels stock promotion campaign led by company connected to sanctioned Canadian adviser Andrew Rudensky who still owes money for unpaid fine @geoffreyyork https://t.co/nsFyEOnXyz

[Annette Hübschle @AHuebschle]

Wildlife traffickers carried on their illegal trade during COVID lockdown – what legal traders can learn from their resilience https://t.co/D9i2pAjseW via @TC_Africa

[IHRP (IHRP.bsky.social) @IHRP_UofT]

IHRP is taking on a Cdn oil company’s human rights abuses in Namibia: IHRP student @EricaDFox and Research Associate @nnkhxn explain more!

[Re-Con Africa @Re_ConAfrica]

ReconAfrica is still busy in Namibia. They are preparing to drill after taking a 2 year break. Who is ReconAfrica? A refresher 1/

[Above Ground @AboveGroundNGO]

Today human rights organizations @IHRP_UofT @SOUL_Okavango filed a complaint with 🇨🇦’s @CORE_Ombuds against Calgary-based oil & gas company ReconAfrica alleging human rights abuses in Namibia. @cnca_rcrce @CANRacCanada @PriceofOil 🧵

[Frack Free Namibia @FrackFree_NB]

The article discusses the civil society response, observations and analysis by frontline defenders, and how external actors assisted and impacted the effectiveness of local efforts. It concludes with a roadmap for inclusive and ethical environmental campaigns.

[Frack Free Namibia @FrackFree_NB]

Excellent article on #oil production and its dire impacts - #ecocide - in the #NigerDelta. So many lessons for on and off-shore #oilandgas exploration in Namibia. @zainabmaibornu shows why women's voices matter.

[Journal for Crime, Justice & Social Democracy @CrimJustJournal]

In Special issue #GreenCriminology Voices from #Africa
@zainabmaibornu Green criminology in the Niger Delta of Nigeria - Why African women’s voices matter #NigerDelta #gender #ecocide @AHuebschle
🔗https://t.co/ZAMnzkOhiF

[Frack Free Namibia @FrackFree_NB]

The article discusses the civil society response, observations and analysis by frontline defenders, and how external actors assisted and impacted the effectiveness of local efforts. It concludes with a roadmap for inclusive and ethical environmental campaigns.

[Frack Free Namibia @FrackFree_NB]

New paper alert: A team of Namibian and Batawana scholars and activists have published a paper on #ReconAfrica's #oilandgas explorations. The article looks at legal transgressions, environmental transgressions and the marginalisation of local people. /1

https://t.co/4aSkJdU465

[Frack Free Namibia @FrackFree_NB]

The article describes the legal transgressions of the Canadian company #ReconAfrica. This includes non-compliance with water use permits, encroachment on conservancy and farmland and failure to comply with industrial standard operating procedures

[Frack Free Namibia @FrackFree_NB]

New article on the #ReconAfrica and local communities’ challenges with confronting environmental degradation, unfulfilled promises, and legal transgressions while striving to protect their ancestral lands and rights. https://t.co/4aSkJdU465

[Annette Hübschle @AHuebschle]

“Green Colonialism”: Nigerian Climate Activist Nnimmo Bassey Says Africa Is Being Sold Out at COP28 https://t.co/FTmlPjSwWH via @democracynow

[Green Anglicans @Greenanglicans]

Botswana's minister of environment affirms the role of faith communities
@gazettebw @FrackFree_NB @BWGovernment @AaccCeta

[Andy Gheorghiu @GheorghiuAndy]

Is #ReconAfrica a good investment? https://t.co/5LbpfanMFa Rightful question, I'd say @NamcorNamibia! @Re_ConAfrica @SOUL_Okavango @esjtnam

[Action for Earth @ActionforEarth]

Action to protect the Okavango Basin in Africa from oil exploration. https://t.co/VqAMUThgoE @RainforestResq @FrackFree_NB

[Geoffrey York @geoffreyyork]

ReconAfrica, the Canadian oil and gas company that has been controversially drilling wells in an environmentally sensitive region in Namibia near the Okavango River, is back to being a penny stock again. At one point it was valued at over $12 (CAD) a share.