{"id":1971,"date":"2018-02-17T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-02-17T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/africa\/uncategorized\/1971\/greenpeace-president-ramaphosa-yet-to-take-decisive-action-on-energy\/"},"modified":"2019-11-06T08:22:48","modified_gmt":"2019-11-06T08:22:48","slug":"greenpeace-president-ramaphosa-yet-to-take-decisive-action-on-energy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/africa\/en\/press\/1971\/greenpeace-president-ramaphosa-yet-to-take-decisive-action-on-energy\/","title":{"rendered":"Greenpeace: President Ramaphosa yet to take decisive action on energy"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"leader\">Johannesburg, 16 February 2018: Responding to the State of the Nation address delivered by President Cyril Ramaphosa tonight, Greenpeace Africa\u2019s political advisor, Happy Khambule, has said:<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>\u201cWhile President Ramaphosa made a compelling attempt to start a new chapter in tonight\u2019s SONA address, by failing to declare that nuclear will not go ahead, or provide direction on the country\u2019s energy pathway through the finalisation of the Integrated Resource Plan, he has created more uncertainty in energy policy. If the President is serious about job creation, he would ensure that the barriers to renewable energy are removed immediately instead of declaring that the mining industry \u2013 which is in terminal decline \u2013 is a \u2018sunrise industry\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>With Eskom on the brink of collapse, President Ramaphosa has made it clear that there is no time to waste and the funding models for State Owned Enterprises must be reviewed. The electricity sector is indeed in dire need of certainty and accountability. South Africans deserve clarity on what will be done to ensure that rational, climate friendly, and low cost energy decisions are taken. It is only the Integrated Resource Plan that can provide that much needed certainty. Greenpeace calls for consistency, and for the President to ensure that a new Integrated Resource Plan (IRP) \u2013 which takes climate change and the country\u2019s strained water resources into account \u2013 is released as soon as possible.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Media contact:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>mbong.akiy@greenpeace.org<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!-- document.write(dc('Eoi_1', 'EF_D1_8E_C0_D3_96_86_84_AE_CF_88_81_80_8D_A2_D1_CD_88_9D_80_C1_8A_8C_8E_8A_9F_81_8A_8A_9D_88_AF_96_86_84_8E_C1_88_81_80_8D_82_D5_80_9B_83_86_8E_82_CD_D2_89_8A_9D_87_CF_8E_D3'));\/\/--><\/script>;\u00a0Greenpeace Africa Head of Communication; 0826142676<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div>\n\tJohannesburg, 16 February 2018: Responding to the State of the Nation address delivered by President Cyril Ramaphosa tonight, Greenpeace Africa\u2019s political advisor, Happy Khambule, has said:\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":4530,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"p4_og_title":"","p4_og_description":"","p4_og_image":"","p4_og_image_id":"","p4_seo_canonical_url":"","p4_campaign_name":"","p4_local_project":"","p4_basket_name":"","p4_department":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"p4-page-type":[14],"class_list":["post-1971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-protecttheenvironment","p4-page-type-press"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/africa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/africa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/africa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/africa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/africa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1971"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/africa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1971\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2670,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/africa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1971\/revisions\/2670"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/africa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/africa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/africa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/africa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1971"},{"taxonomy":"p4-page-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/africa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/p4-page-type?post=1971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}