South Africa: The Sorry State of Air Pollution From Eskom's Coal-Fired Power Stations

opinion

With all the emphasis on Eskom's financial and operational sustainability and future structure, the utility's environmental performance and sustainability are inevitably neglected, and indeed has become the sacrificial lamb on the altar of the money gods.

In October 2018, an analysis and study of Eskom's own air pollution monitoring reports, commissioned by the Centre for Environmental Rights and undertaken by Dr Ranajit (Ron) Sahu, a US-based consultant in the field of environmental, mechanical and chemical engineering, revealed the sorry state of Eskom's atmospheric emissions -- with some 3,200 exceedances of its atmospheric emission licence limits in a 21-month period.

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