Month: August 2025

Link to News Lindsay Dentlinger It’s welcomed the environmental approval for a 4,000 megawatt station following an appeal against the original decision in 2017. Koeberg power station, near Cape Town. Picture: Eskom CAPE TOWN – The South African Nuclear Energy Corporation (NECSA) said that a new nuclear power station in…

Link to News By: Schalk Burger Creamer Media Senior Deputy Editor The State-owned South African Nuclear Energy Corporation (Necsa) Group welcomes the upholding of the decision to grant State-owned Eskom environmental authorisation to build a 4 000 MW nuclear power station in Duynefontein, in the Western Cape. The 2017 decision…

Link to News Lindsay Dentlinger Eight years since appeals were lodged, Environment Minister Dion George on Friday gave the go-ahead for Eskom to proceed with the next phases of the project near its existing Koeberg station. FILE: Minister of Electricity and Energy Kgosientsho Ramokgopa and Deputy Minister Samantha Graham-Maré brief…

Link to News Wendell Roelf South Africa’s Minister of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment Dion George deliveres a statement during the United Nations climate change conference COP29, in Baku, Azerbaijan November 19, 2024 REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov/File Photo CAPE TOWN, Aug 8 (Reuters) – South Africa’s environment minister on Friday upheld a previous decision granting…