Joburg’s big stink can lead to headaches and nausea: Sasol has said the levels of sulphur dioxide and hydrogen sulphide were below the limits prescribed by its atmospheric emissions licences
. “The last time such an odour occurred was in 2021. The source was identified as having come from the Sasol plant located in Mpumalanga, following investigations by the DFFE. It is suspected that this might be a re-occurrence of the incident.”
He said the department will be liaising with the City of Johannesburg and the forestry, fisheries and the environment department in the investigation of possible sources. “The Gauteng air quality officers forum is also meeting this morning to investigate if there are no potential sources in the province.”
During the February 2021 sulphur stench that reached parts of Gauteng and Mpumalanga, Modise said it, too, was probably a combination of elevated levels of sulphur dioxide and hydrogen sulphide. Aninto Sasol’s Secunda operations, which was believed to be the possible source, found that the release of SO2 and H2S from the plant were within the approved limits of its atmospheric emission licence.
Modise said on Thursday the result of its investigation into the possible source of that pollution had been “inconclusive”.
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