Civil society organisations The Green Connection, Aukotowa Fisheries Primary Co-Operative and Natural Justice have launched a judicial review of decisions to grant authorisation to seismic and geophysical data analytics company TGS to conduct seismic surveys off South Africa’s Western Cape and Northern Cape coastlines. The case challenges decisions made by the Department of Minerals and Energy, as well as the subsequent dismissal of internal appeals by the Department of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment, the organisations say.