{"id":7395,"date":"2010-03-24T13:31:32","date_gmt":"2010-03-24T11:31:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whalecottage.com\/blog\/?p=7395"},"modified":"2010-03-24T13:41:48","modified_gmt":"2010-03-24T11:41:48","slug":"no-mining-in-the-stellenbosch-and-cape-town-winelands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chrisvonulmenstein.com\/blog\/cape-town\/no-mining-in-the-stellenbosch-and-cape-town-winelands\/","title":{"rendered":"No mining in the Stellenbosch and Cape Town Winelands"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.whalecottage.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/winelands.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-7401\" title=\"winelands\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.whalecottage.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/winelands-150x150.jpg?resize=150%2C150\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a>For the past\u00a0few weeks intense\u00a0debate has\u00a0taken place about the Government&#8217;s announcement that it is considering applying for prospecting rights on a\u00a0number of Stellenbosch wine farms, including Saxenburg, Jordan, Langverwacht, Haasendal, Rosendal\u00a0and Zevenwacht, and De Grendel, Highlands and Hooggelegen\u00a0in the Tygerberg\/Durbanville winelands area\u00a0in Cape Town.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Intense lobbying by the Winelands Action Group\u00a0has led to the announcement last Friday that the application for the prospecting rights has been withdrawn.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Gary Jordan, spokesperson for the Winelands Action Group, announced the good news about the withdrawal of the prospecting rights application on 19 March.\u00a0 The Winelands Action Group was supported by\u00a0Cape Winemakers Guild, Wines of South Africa, the Stellenbosch Wine Route, the Durbanville Wine Route, the World Wide Fund (WWF)\u00a0for Nature, the WWF Biodiversity and Wine Initiative, the Bottelary Conservancy, wine writers, heritage groups and the public to lobby the Department of Mineral Resources to withdraw the application for rights to prospect for tin, zinc, lead, lithium, copper, manganese and silver.<\/p>\n<p>The mining rights application\u00a0threatened the wine industry&#8217;s International Year of Biodiversity, and the new &#8216;Sustainable Wines SA&#8221;\u00a0certification seal for wines, a world first.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the announcement by the Winelands Action Group, reports\u00a0remain contradictory about the withdrawal of the applications.<\/p>\n<p>Chris von Ulmenstein, Whale Cottage Portfolio: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whalecottage.com\">www.whalecottage.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the past\u00a0few weeks intense\u00a0debate has\u00a0taken place about the Government&#8217;s announcement that it is considering applying for prospecting rights on a\u00a0number of Stellenbosch wine farms, including Saxenburg, Jordan, Langverwacht, Haasendal, Rosendal\u00a0and Zevenwacht, and De Grendel, Highlands and Hooggelegen\u00a0in the Tygerberg\/Durbanville winelands area\u00a0in Cape Town.\u00a0\u00a0 Intense lobbying by the Winelands Action Group\u00a0has led to the announcement [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false},"categories":[3,124,31,21,19],"tags":[3969,3970,32366,3965,32378,2196,3971,3967,3955,3956,3959,3961,3962,3972,395,3958,3964,3960,3957,32376,3966,3973,3963,32373,32382,3954,156,3968,1163],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t<!-- All in One SEO 5.0.5 - aioseo.com -->\n\t<meta name=\"description\" content=\"For the past few weeks intense debate has taken place about the Government&#039;s announcement that it is considering applying for prospecting rights on a number of Stellenbosch wine farms, including Saxenburg, Jordan, Langverwacht, Haasendal, Rosendal and Zevenwacht, and De Grendel, Highlands and Hooggelegen in the Tygerberg\/Durbanville winelands area in Cape Town. 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