KwaZulu-Natal’s official custodian of nature conservation has stepped into a pungent quagmire after entering into a provisional agreement that involves the ‘donation’ of a 1,784 hectare hunting ranch – ostensibly to counterbalance the negative impacts of Karpowership operations on the marine en.
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More explosion risk revisions to the latest EIA studies have come to light, amid heightened public awareness of gas explosions triggered by the recent Boksburg tanker disaster. But they are not the only EIA revisions to have raised alarm.
The National Energy Regulator of South Africa began public hearings for generation licence applications under the emergency Risk Mitigation Independent Power Producer Procurement programme.
Karpowership
The R225 billion powerships deal may have been wrecked this week when the environment department refused to authorise the Turkish-led consortium s projects in three ports.
The consortium s environmental consultants failed to deliver adequate reports or listen to warnings from specialists, said the department.
In response, Karpowership said a misinformation campaign had derailed the project. It plans to appeal.
The
Karpowership deal was torpedoed by the Department of Forestry, Fisheries and Environment
- and, unintentionally, by its own environmental consultants.
The
Turkish-led Karpowership SA consortium was named preferred bidder in March to
supply the lion s share of 2 000MW in capacity the government is procuring to