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The Pretoria High Court has refused the state’s application to postpone the hearing of the civil society coalition’s judicial review application in the Mabola case, and granted a punitive costs order against the state. The hearing of the review application is now underway. On Friday, 12 October 2018, more than 4 years after the declaration… continued
On Friday, 12 October 2018, more than 4 years after the declaration of the Mabola Protected Environment, the MEC for Environment in Mpumalanga, Vusi Shongwe, published a notice of intention to exclude the properties that make up the proposed coal mining area from the Mabola Protected Environment, declared in 2014. The notice provides for a… continued
On Tuesday 16 October 2018, attorneys from the Centre for Environmental Rights (CER) will tell Parliament that an Integrated Resource Plan for Electricity (IRP) that provides for expensive new coal-fired power, at a time when South Africa needs to be urgently transitioning away from harmful coal, would be in conflict with the Constitution. This means… continued
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