Centre for Environmental Rights – Advancing Environmental Rights in South Africa

1. All records, including board minutes of meetings held subsequent to 26 August 2016, relating to:
   1. Eskom’s Air Quality Strategy and the implementation thereof;
   2. Environmental performance, compliance and risks;
   3. Environmental compliance and environmental performance “Journey Map”;
   4. Minimum Emission Standards (MES) and atmospheric emission licence (AEL) compliance;
   5. Postponements of compliance with MES/AELs and timing and proposed duration of such postponement applications; and
   6. Retrofits and timing;
2. All records and information regarding the decision-making timelines and mechanisms within Eskom board to ensure compliance with the AELs and the MES;
3. The latest decommissioning schedule and plans for all 15 coal-fired power stations, including per station, the funding for capex and maintenance to comply with the AELs and MES, as well as funding the environmental impact assessments (EIAs) for decommissioning;
4. All data, records and information relating to the sustaining capex per coal-fired power station for the specific capital that needs to be spent in addition to the mandatory environmental retrofits;
5. All records and information relating to the socio-economic impact assessment/s for the early closure of Eskom coal-fired power stations;
6. All data relating to employment figures for each of Eskom’s coal-fired power stations, as well as such data as is available in relation to each coal mine that supplies the power stations; and
7. All plans, records and other data – including such records as may be required by legislation – relating to the employees impacted by the closure and/or decommissioning of Eskom’s coal-fired power stations and such data as is available in relation to each coal mine that supplies the power stations.

The request was partially granted.