Environment

50/50 on SABC2 asks people to please take part in a 10 question “snapshot” health survey

50/50 on SABC2 asks people to please take part in a 10 question “snapshot” health survey. The results will be used as part of the television show’s investigation into air pollution allegations being made about the EnviroServ Shongweni landfill site. Click here to participate in the survey.

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EnviroServ image

EnviroServ PR Firm Requests “Retraction” of Smoke Plumes Video, allegedly emanating from Landfill.

Yesterday the Upper Highway Air NPC received the following from Corporate Image, mandated to handle communications on behalf of the “EnviroServ Group”, concerning the post of a video on 13 January 2017 depicting what was stated by the videographer to be plumes arising from the Shongweni Landfill. “I am emailing

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Transnet issues statement “The pipeline does not in any way contribute to any of the odours in the area”

Transnet were contacted for comment after EnviroServ Waste Management alleged in their November Complaints analysis report,  that the odours experienced in the Upper Highway area were possibly emanating from the Transnet fuel pipeline. Saret Knoetze of Transnet issued the following statement, “We were working with the Department of Health and they

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Toxicology and methodology

Methodology and toxicology update EnviroServ Shongweni Landfill

Methodology and toxicology update: EnviroServ Shongweni landfill. The following was received by Upper Highway Air from the Department of Environmental Affairs on the 27th of December 2016. This document forms part of a larger request for information made to the DEA for documents pertaining to the landfill, which to date,

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