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
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