Highveld Priority Area (HPA) Multi-stakeholder Reference Group and Implementation Task Team
Municipalities
- Correspondence to the Nkangala Air Quality Officer regarding the management of ITT meetings in the HPA (29 October 2014)
- CER letter to eMalaheleni Local Municipality to determine whether HPA air quality has improved (15 June 2016)
- Response from eMalahleni Local Municipality (5 July 2016)
- CER letter to Nkangala District Municipality to determine whether HPA air quality has improved (15 June 2016)
Department of Environmental Affairs
- Correspondence sent to the DEA (22 August 2014)
- CER preliminary comments on the mid-term review (23 March 2017)
- CER letter to DEA regarding the outcomes of the meeting with NGOs on the implementation of the Gighveld Priority Area on 12 December 2017 (19 January 2018)
- Correspondence to the DEA requesting urgent steps be taken to address air pollution in the HPA (26 February 2018)
- Correspondence sent to DEA Director General regarding CER opposition to the establishment of an expert panel on Sulphur Dioxide (SO2) abatement solutions (5 March 2018)
- CER letter to DEA requesting the urgent withdrawal of the provision in the list of activities regarding the weakening of the SO2 new plant minimum emissions standards for existing plants (8 November 2018)
- CER letter to Minister Mokonyane requesting the urgent withdrawal of the provision in the list of activities regarding the weakening of the so2 new plant minimum emissions standards for existing plants (23 November 2018) (without annexures)
- CER letter to Minister Mokonyane regarding the regulations for implementing and enforcing the HPA Air Quality Management Plan (2012) (10 December 2018)
- CER Letter to Minister Mokonyane regarding CER opposition to SO2 Expert Panel (13 December 2018)
- CER letter to Minister Mokonyane requesting the urgent withdrawal of the provision of the list of activities regarding the weakening of the SO2 new plant minimum emission standards for existing plants (5 March 2019)
- Minister Mokonyane’s response to the CER regarding the regulations for implementing and enforcing the HPA Air Quality Management plan 2012 (dated 30 April 2019 but sent 9 May 2019)
- LAC submissions opposing the proposed doubling of the 2020 SO2 MES (5 July 2019)
- Annexure 1 – CER submissions of 25 June 2018
- Annexure 2 – CER letter to DEA re SO2 Panel (5 March 2018)
- Annexure 3 – Lauri Myllyvirta “Air quality and health impacts of doubling the South African standards for SO2 emissions from power plants” (3 July 2019)
- Annexure 4 – Dr Ron Sahu “Comments on the Proposed Increase in the Minimum Emission Standard (MES) for Sulphur Dioxide (SO2) Applicable to Coal Fired Power Plant Stacks in South Africa”(July 2019)
Department of Health
In September 2016, the CER and groundWork addressed a letter to the Department of Health, urging it to attend Integrated Implementation Task Team (ITT) and Multi-Stakeholder Reference Group (MSRG) meetings relating to the Highveld Air Quality Priority Area
Multi-stakeholder Reference Group (MSRG)
- CER comments on the updated Multi-stakeholder Reference Group for the implementation of the Highveld Priority Area Air Quality Management Plan (11 December 2015)
- CER letter re MSRG on-boarding meeting (9 June 2020) and Annexures A, B C and D.
- Letter to Stakeholders in Priority Areas from DEFF Director General (14 May 2020)