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“The only thing worse than training your staff and having them leave, is not training your staff and having them stay” Any person or organisation looking for a venue for training is welcome to hire the Gondwana Environmental Solutions offices. We are fully equipped with all the IT infrastructure, electronic equipment and training facilities that [...]
There’s much debate around the world about the use of nuclear power, from those who have not got it, and those who are winding down its reliance on what is easily the cleanest fuel. Nuclear power in France is mainstream policy. In Italy and Germany, their governments are looking at scaling it down. In the [...]
The greatest environmental challenge facing the World in this century is global climate change. Referred to as Global warming, it encompasses disruptions of the World’s weather and climate patterns and impacts on rainfall, rising sea levels and extreme weather conditions. The greatest challenges are faced by the developing world as they are sometimes less equipped [...]
TRUMPING THE TRUMP – THE JOKER IN THE PACK By Alan Banister How do you stop Trump in his tracks? Easy: ask him to go through his statements of environmental issues to see what a shallow mind he has. But, after all, he’s a Republican, who believes in less interference from government and more control [...]
Waste management in South Africa is governed by the National Environmental Management: Waste Act, 2008 (Act No. 59 of 2008). The Waste Act supports the waste management hierarchy in its approach to waste management, by promoting cleaner production, waste minimisation, reuse, recycling and waste treatment with disposal seen as a last resort in the management [...]
Water is a scarce natural resource that is unevenly distributed in South Africa. While it is a right of all persons to access water, water use has historically been unevenly used. The National Water Act (1998) aims to ensure the protection of water, the sustainable use of water and the equitable redistribution of water. These [...]
Alan Bannister May 2016 There’s madness in the way we go about our business in this world of ours. It’s often a mad rush into danger without any thought of assessing the risk of doing something. Take fracking, the process of extracting natural gas from underground. In areas like Pennsylvania in the USA where fracking [...]
Alan Bannister April 2016 It's been a while since I put pen to paper, but I have not been idle but have watched the unfolding environmental news touch on a whole load of subjects – not just climate change, none of them entirely local. Fracking rears its ugly head in many parts of the world, [...]
The air quality act of South Africa (NEM: AQA Act No. 39 of 2004) shifted the focus of air quality management from source-based control to receptor-based impact. This transition was aligned with the Constitution of South Africa to provide an environment that is not harmful to health of persons living in South Africa. To promote [...]
The role of the environment within the Constitution of South Africa was discussed in our first blog. Ultimately, Section 24 of the Constitution provides the right to every person for a non-harmful environment and simultaneously mandates the government to protect the environment. The framework to enforce Section 24 of the Constitution is the National Environmental [...]
