Credit: © Greenpeace Africa / Mujahid Safodien
Credit: © Greenpeace Africa / Mujahid Safodien
We welcome the President’s decision to take action on the energy crisis, and to bring an end to loadshedding. The plan leaves us with many questions that require clarification.
We support... continued
9 JUNE 2022 – Long suffering communities of Sharpeville and Bophelong have gathered outside ArcelorMittal South Africa Ltd’s (AMSA’s) main plant in Vanderbijlpark to protest against ongoing pollution, n... continued
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23 May 2022
The South Durban Community Environmental Alliance (SDCEA) and groundWork, Friends of the Earth South Africa (gW), represented by the Centre for Environmental Rights... continued
The Life After Coal Campaign has just launched its Just Transition Open Agenda booklet* The Just Transition Open Agenda was developed by the campaign’s founding partners Earthlife Africa, groundWork and the Centre fo... continued
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14 April 2022
Environmental justice groups behind recent landmark High Court victory in #DeadlyAir case are disappointed to learn of Minister Creecy’s decisi... continued
Community activists from coal affected communities in Emalahleni and surrounding areas gathered in Emalahleni for the
first community consultation organised by the Presidential Climate Commission ... continued
Today, Urgewald, Reclaim Finance, and 25 other NGO partners are publishing research on the financiers and investors behind companies on the “Global Coal Exit ... continued
NEW LEGAL CHALLENGES TO ESKOM’S ONGOING AIR POLLUTION
The Life After Coal campaign has submitted an appeal to the Minister of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment challenging decisions to grant further leniency to Es... continued
We rounded up some key observations from activists in the Life After Coal Campaign after President Cyril Ramaposa’s much awaited State of the National Address on 10 February 2022. This was a critical address for Ra... continued
Plans for the proposed Nseleni Independent Floating Gas Power Plant in Richards Bay have been stymied by refusals of two of its licence applications by different regulatory authori... continued
Eskom has indicated the following as decommissioning dates for its ageing coal-fired power stations. View in detail...
| Power Station | Date |
|---|---|
| Grootvlei | 2018 |
| Komati | 2019 |
| Camden | 2020 |
| Hendrina | 2020 |
| Arnot | 2021 |
| Kriel | 2026 |
| Matla | 2029 |
| Duvha | 2030 |
| Lethabo | 2035 |
| Tutuka | 2035 |
| Matimba | 2037 |
| Kendal | 2038 |
| Majuba | 2046 |
The CER is a non-profit organisation of activist lawyers who help communities and civil society organisations realise our Constitutional right to a healthy environment… read more
Earthlife Africa Johannesburg was founded in 1988 to mobilise civil society around environmental issues in relation to people… read more
groundWork is a non-profit environmental justice service and developmental organisation working in the areas of Climate & Energy Justice, Coal, Environmental Health… read more