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Ian Sampson
Partner, Head of the Environmental & Clean Energy Law Department
Melissa Groenink
Environmental Department
Janice Tooley
We provide the following services:
Drafting and interpreting environmental legislation
Auditing and due diligence studies
Environmental aspects in commercial transactions and agreements
Environmental impact assessments
Permitting and Licensing
Environmental risk identification and management
Contamination and remediation
Litigation and alternative dispute resolution (ADR)
Lender liability
Specific areas of skills in:
Water law Planning law
Air quality law Forestry law
Waste law Coastal zones law
Mining law
Conservation and biodiversity
Examples of current or recent projects we have advised on (environmental law):
R7 billion development of the greenfields International Airport at La Mercy, KwaZulu-Natal – environmental compliance and regulatory requirements; and environmental dispute resolution on behalf of the Airports Company of South Africa
The decommissioning of the existing Durban International Airport, KwaZulu-Natal – environmental compliance and regulatory requirements on behalf of the Airports Company of South Africa
Development of the Dube Tradeport and Agrizone – environmental compliance and regulatory requirements on behalf of the Dube Tradeport Development Company
Development of the Hanglip Golf and Housing Estate, Plettenberg Bay, Western Cape – environmental compliance and regulatory requirements; and environmental dispute resolution on behalf of the developer, True Motives 46 (Pty) Ltd
Various greenfields housing and golf estates on behalf of CMAI in the Western Cape, including Kurland and Flaminkvlei
Development of the project Mafutha 80,000 barrels a day coal to oil plant, Limpopo Province, South Africa – environmental compliance and regulatory requirements for Sasol
Furnaces 5 and 6 installation for African Rainbow Minerals Limited, Cato Ridge, KwaZulu-Natal – environmental compliance and regulatory requirements
Development of a Greenfields hydrofluoric plant in Richards Bay, KwaZulu-Natal – environmental compliance and regulatory requirements on behalf of the developer, Alfluourco
Decontamination of a mercury recovery plant, Cato Ridge, KwaZulu-Natal – environmental compliance and regulatory requirements on behalf of the Department of Environmental Affairs and Tourism
Various environmental lender liability and general environmental advice to commercial and investment banks in South Africa.
Drafting "Green" Environmental Bylaw for the eThekwini Municipality
Retained the KZN Minister of Agriculture and Environmental Affairs to assist with the review of environmental impact assessment appeals (first appointed in 2004).
Briefed to Draft for Quality Management Plans Regulations in terms of the National Environmental Management: Air Quality Act.
 
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