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Emma Graney covers energy from The Globe and Mail’s Calgary bureau. For this week’s deeper dive, she talks about aThe story of Reconnaissance Energy Africa Ltd. , a little-known junior Canadian energy company, has the ingredients of a Hollywood blockbuster: the picturesque Okavango Delta and its vast gatherings of wildlife, potentially the world’s last major virgin oil play, political connections, protests and, of course, elephants.
ReconAfrica wants to develop what it believes is the last untouched sedimentary basin in the world. But there’s a hitch – the region is also one of the. As the company drills wells to establish just how much oil slops beneath its land lease that covers 35,000 square kilometres spanning Namibia and Botswana, international attention on the project grows. So too do concerns about the pachyderms, the broader environment and the UNESCO heritage-listed sites around the planned development.
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