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Recent engagements between Minister of Energy and civil society organisations
Below we set out key events in recent engagements between Minister of Energy David Mahlobo and civil society organisations around the Integrated Resource Plan for Electricity and the Energy Indaba scheduled for 7-8 December 2017.
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The Department of Environmental Affairs is selling our future to the highest bidder
The Department of Environmental Affairs is responsible for ensuring that our constitutional right to a healthy environment is realised, but recently the Department went against all of those principles when they granted an Environmental Authorisation for a nuclear power station to be constructed at Duynefontein in the Western Cape.
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Nuclear plans for South Africa will face resistance at all levels
Johannesburg, 13 November 2017: Earthlife Africa Jhb, Greenpeace Africa and SAFCEI have officially filed a notice informing the Department of Environmental Affairs that the three organisations intend to jointly appeal the environmental authorisation for the construction and operation of a new nuclear power station in Duynefontein, just north of Koeberg in Cape Town.
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Standard Bank Sets The Record Straight on Financing Lamu
NAIROBI - KENYA - South Africa's Standard Bank has stated they will not fund the proposed Lamu coal-fired power plant in Kenya. This comes despite reports that they were a major project funder, as included in the bank’s annual report of 2015.
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Greenpeace slams nuclear power station authorisation
Responding to the decision by the Department of Environmental Affairs to grant Eskom authorisation for the construction and operation of a nuclear power station at Duynefontein, north of Koeberg, in the Western Cape, Melita Steele, Senior Climate and Energy Campaigner for Greenpeace Africa has said:
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UMOJA
This edition is packed with victories, from the Congo forest to supermarkets in Australia phasing out single use plastics.
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Can the world come to its senses on nuclear weapons?
Looking back, one of the key moments that was to define both my professional and personal path was the moment I stepped onto the small atoll of Rongelap, in the…
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Let the installation begin!
It’s been almost two months since we surpassed our crowdfunding target for the solar streetlights that will be installed at the Diepsloot Philile Creche. A lot has been happening in those two months, including the delivery of the solar streetlights by our supplier, Schneider Electric.
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Greenpeace Africa in total solidarity with the People of Sierra Leone
Dakar, 17 August 2017- Following the disaster that struck Freetown on 13 August 2017 and killed at least 312 people and thousands of homeless people, Greenpeace Africa expressed its compassion and solidarity to the people of Sierra Leone.