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Activists Picket African Energy Week as Shell Plans Drilling
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- South Africa climate activists picketed African Energy Week in Cape Town, demanding an end to new oil and gas exploration.
- Greenpeace Africa and Extinction Rebellion joined, accusing firms of putting profit before people and environment.
- Shell plans to drill five deepwater wells in the Northern Cape Ultra Deep block off South Africa’s west coast.
- Judy Scott-Goldman said expanding fossil fuel use breaches Paris Agreement goals.