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Article

21 Jan 2014

Author:
Ilham Rawoot, Al Jazeera

Mozambique fishermen decry gas drilling

[T]he World Bank [says that] 55 percent of Mozambique's population still lives below the poverty line [and]...communities [are] suffering more than benefiting from the influx of the Liquefied Natural Gas...industry...[F]ish are now scarce, since...Anadarko began [gas] exploration in 2006...This exploration...is threatening their entire livelihood…The environmental impacts of gas drilling...are broadly similar to those of oil drilling...[and according to the director of Greenpeace International Science Unit at the University of Exeter, Paul Johnson,]..."there is a potential for anything from the physical obstruction of traditional fishing areas to the tainting of fish with hydrocarbons or chemicals used in the process"...[A]nadarko's Environmental Impact Assessment...[said that]..."impacts [are] of minor significance"...[and]...RS Risk Solutions who oversees the social impact of [the] project...says Anadarko has a fisheries department which has been monitoring vessel and catch movement, to feed into developments to minimise the impact of the operations on fisheries...[Also refers to ENI, Statoil, Petronas]