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Terry has worked exclusively in environmental law and policy in Southern Africa for the last 25 years. She specialises in the environmental legal aspects of water use rights, pollution control and rehabilitation, environmental impact assessment, exploration and mining. She regularly conducts pre-acquisition due diligence exercise and advises potential purchasers and/or lenders on environmental liability arising out of the transaction and drafts contractual provisions regulating liability. Terry advises has advised various clients (including Shell, PetroSA and Sasol) regarding the environmental aspects of exploration and production of oil and gas. She is currently working with an (unnamed) international client on an LNG procurement and distribution project. Terry has provided guidance on the legal aspects of environmental impact assessment to the City of Cape Town (for the establishment of the Berg River Dam and a regional landfill site), for Transnet (for the construction of the multiproduct pipeline from Durban to Cape Town and the expansion of the Port of Durban's container terminal), BHP Billiton (for the expansion of one of its aluminium smelters in Richards Bay) and VTTI (a petrochemicals multinational, for the construction of a fuel storage terminal in Cape Town's harbour). Terry has litigated on behalf of various clients (including the City of Cape Town, Shell and Sasol) in environmental legal disputes. Terry's government clients include national, provincial and local governments including those of Namibia, South Africa, Swaziland, the Western Cape, KwaZulu Natal, Cape Town, Durban, Johannesburg and Richards Bay. She acts for parastatals such as ACSA, Eskom, PetroSA and Transnet. Her commercial clients include Abland, BHP Billiton, Biotherm, Coca Cola Africa, EnviroServ, Nedbank, Rand Merchant Bank, Sappi, Shell and York Timbers.