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Senegal has put a gas plant near its coast in Saint Louis.
This could help businesses in Africa.
But at the same time, it's damaging the environment.
Saint Louis is the fishing capital of Senegal.
Fisherman Moustapha
Dieng thinks the discovery is bad news for the fishing community.
But this rock is the habitat of all the fish, many species of fish, and practically, there are more than 3,000 pirogues, the small canoes that you see, which made their living from this area."
Although there's a climate crisis, Senegal wants to start drilling.
But there's also an energy crisis.
Many countries are looking for oil and gas.
Senegal could be the answer for these countries.
For Sophie Gladima, drilling will provide electricity and jobs for the country.
It will help Senegal develop.
We see the contrast between the billions that we are told will come from the extraction of offshore gas and the poverty that you see around you."
Fishermen aren't allowed to go near the gas plant.
This is pushing them to go north to find fish.
But this is on the border of Mauritania and it's illegal to fish in their waters.
Because Saint-Louis is the capital of fishing, the number of boats that there are in Saint-Louis, the types of fishing that there are in Saint-Louis, they exist nowhere else."
