Please APPEAL against the CGG SEISMIC SURVEY 

This is a follow up from the Shell + CGG petition (Dec 2021), and we need urgent mass action again please:

The Shell/Impact Africa survey on the Wild Coast was successfully fought in court and stopped.

Now CGG's seismic survey on the Garden Route has just (16 November 2023) been granted environmental authorisation to continue with its seismic survey. The proposed survey completely surrounds a fragile, threatened ecosystem where the well known Kingklip fish and hake aggregate.

Seismic surveys utilise blasts from a 48 air-gun array towed behind an oil & gas prospecting seismic survey vessel, detonating with a force powerful enough to penetrate 40 kilometers deep into the earth’s crust below the sea floor to detect oil reserves. These bursts of pressure sound waves are generated every 10 seconds, 24 hours a day and can continue for 6 months at a time. This high intensity sound reaches 230dB or more, roughly comparable to a sound of a space shuttle launch. To give context, in South Africa, the labour law does not allow employees to work in noise levels over more than 85dBA (150dBA equivalent in water).

It has been shown that these seismic survey sounds can be heard underwater thousands of kilometres from the survey ship. Needless to say these surveys have some devastating impacts to marine life including soft tissue damage, hearing loss, the bends, disorientation, displacement, migratory diversion and animal stranding.

Any RSA citizen can become an Interested & Affected party - the ocean is our commons.

We need your urgent action as follows:

Please can you write an appeal against this survey by midnight on the 13th of December 2023:
 The appeal must be submitted as follows:

1) Use this form to fill out your argument.

2) Email it, with a letter detailing the grounds of your argument to:

The Appeal Administrator; 

1. Department of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment: Appeals and Legal Review Directorate
   Attention: Director: Appeals and Legal Review
   E-mail: appeals@dffe.gov.za
   By post: Private Bag X 447, Pretoria, 0001
   By hand: Environmental House, c/o Steve Biko and Soutpansberg Street, Arcadia, Pretoria, 0083

2. Department of Mineral Resources and Energy: Legal Services Directorate

   Attention: Director: Legal Services

   Email: Pieter.Alberts@dmre.gov.za

   By fax: 086 710 0877

   By post: Private Bag X 59, Arcadia, 0007

   By hand: Trevenna Campus Building 2C, c/o Meintjes and Francis Baard Street, Sunnyside, 0007

3. Petroleum Agency SA

   Attention: The Chief Executive Officer

   E-mail: EAappeals@petroleumagencysa.com

   By post: Private Bag X 5111, Tygervalley, 7536

   By hand: Heron Place, Second Floor, Heron Close, Century City, Cape Town, 7441

4. CGG Services SAS

   E-mail: cggsouthcoast@slrconsulting.com

   By post/hand: Care of SLR, 5th Floor Letterstedt House, Newlands on Main, Cape Town, 7700

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   You will also need to email the other Interested +Affected Parties - a list which you will have to ask for from CGG (4. above)

A copy of the Environmental Authorisation can also be downloaded from the SLR website

(https://www.slrconsulting.com/public-documents/cgg-algoa/ and data free website

(https://slrpublicdocs.datafree.co/public-documents/cgg-algoa/ The Environmental Authorisation

Thank you and please join beach protests on the 9th of December.