SA's shale gas: abundant, affordable and acceptable?

摘要

There is an energy shortage facing Africa's largest economy, but there is also the prospect of an abundant, affordable but controversial resource that might be used to meet the country's future needs, MANY OF SOUTH Africa's energy experts are calling for the shale-gas resources that are believed to exist in the semi-arid Karoo region, between Johannesburg and Cape Town, to be explored and exploited. They make a compelling case for the government to lift the year-long moratorium it placed on shale gas exploration drilling.