Environmental
movement blocks fracking in Algeria’s remote south
An
unprecedented environmental protest movement in a remote part of
Algeria
has disrupted the country’s multibillion-dollar shale programme and
is making political waves across the north African nation and the
wider region.
Since
the start of January, thousands of protesters have turned up daily in
the rural town of Ain Salah, in the heart of the Sahara, to take part
in increasingly raucous rallies against a $70bn hydraulic fracturing
project they say will pollute the groundwater and disturb the
environment.
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