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South Africa: Vigilant Citizens Resist Energy Projects That Harm the Seas
ISS, 8 June 2021
On World Oceans Day, the Karpowership debacle is a reminder of our responsibility to protect and restore marine life. Read more »
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South Africa: Minister Suspends Environmental Assessment Process for Karpowership Project in Saldanha Bay
Daily Maverick, 13 June 2021
The environmental impact assessment approval process for the controversial Turkish emergency powerships deal in Saldanha Bay has been suspended by environment minister Barbara… Read more »
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South Africa: Is Africa's Biggest Polluter Capable of Transformation?
allAfrica, 4 June 2021
The public utility which supplies the vast majority of South Africa's electricity, Eskom, is the biggest polluter on the continent, according to a local non-governmental… Read more »
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South Africa: Mantashe Has Left South African Independent Power Producers Out in the Cold, and We're Giving Up
Daily Maverick, 30 May 2021
After five years of research, development and being 'shovel ready', locally-owned renewable energy companies have been effectively frozen out by Gwede Mantashe's latest procurement… Read more »
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South Africa: 'Influencers' Are Dangerously Willing to Throw Out Their Principles for a Paying Gig
Daily Maverick, 25 May 2021
AmaBhungane's investigative journalists broke an extraordinary story last week, which details how the government's emergency power supply regulations were 'legally rigged' to… Read more »
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South Africa: 'Green Exemption Fixer' Hantie Plomp Faces Misconduct Complaint Over Turkish Powerships' Covid-19 Lifesaving Claims
Daily Maverick, 9 May 2021
A complaint has been lodged against an environmental consultant who played a leading role in facilitating a successful emergency exemption permit for a Turkish powership plan that… Read more »
Talking Turkish Energy No Solution for South Africa's Oceans
South Africa is facing an uphill battle to keep the lights on, with energy supplier Eskom's past mismanagement, misspent funds and ageing infrastructure the reasons for the country's growing electricity woes.
Despite this, South Africans are in disbelief at the sea-based "emergency" solution offered by Turkey's Kapowership and its subsidiary Kapowership South Africa, which was announced on March 18, 2021 as one of the preferred bids under South Africa's Risk Mitigation Independent Power Producer Procurement Programme.
Emergency, after all, implies a stop-gap measure for a transition to a preferred long-term form of power generation.The plan was launched in 2019 to procure almost 2,000 megawatts of new-generation capacity. However, vigilant South Africans on World Oceans Day, believe that it is their responsibility to protect and restore marine life, writes Tim Walker for The Institute for Security Studies. Concerns are being raised about the ecological impact of the heated water discharged into the harbours or the ineffective limiting of greenhouse gas emissions.
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Embattled South African power utility Eskom, has been at the centre of the country's economic woes for a number of years, where it has been struggling to keep the lights on for ... Read more »
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Eskom has said it is losing at least nearly U.S.$173 million in revenue annually due to illegal power connections in Gauteng, Daily Maverick writes. Of that, it is haemorrhaging ... Read more »
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The public utility which supplies the vast majority of South Africa's electricity, Eskom, is the biggest polluter on the continent, according to a local non-governmental ... Read more »
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