Minister Barbara Creecy has outlined the Department of Forestry, Fisheries and Environment’s key priority areas for the 2022/2023 financial year and responded to reports that weather warnings before the April floods in KwaZulu-Natal had been inadequate. Minister Barbara Creecy has outline.
Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment Minister Barbara Creecy has written to President Cyril Ramaphosa to request that the Presidential Climate Commission (PCC) be allowed to oversee public consultations on appeals that have arisen in relation to air-quality compliance by Eskom power stations. Several appeals have been lodged against decisions taken by the Department’s National Air Quality Officer in relation to the requests for the suspension and/or postponement of compliance with the Minimum Emission Standards (MES) and the issuance of provisional atmospheric emission licences.