Despite the DFFE’s refusal of Karpowership SA’s environmental authorisation applications earlier this year, the Nersa has ruffled the feathers of local environmental groups and fishing communities by approving three generation licences for floating gas-power generation.
Green Connection Strategic Lead Liziwe McDaid: “We find it utterly unacceptable that Nersa could even contemplate, let alone actually grant, licences to the power ship project.
Green Connection has been calling for more transparency in the power ship proposals and maintained that Nersa had failed indigenous South Africans with this decision.
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