PODCAST: Gwede Mantashe’s quiet race to build a gas-fired rival to Eskom
Gwede Mantashe has been patiently building not only a case for supplanting coal with another fossil fuel, liquefied natural gas, but has now begun to lay down plans and actual tenders for an entire new gas-powered infrastructure
Largely hidden by the desperate public discourse over the future of Eskom and electricity in South Africa, mineral resources & energy minister Gwede Mantashe has been patiently building not only a case for supplanting coal with another fossil fuel, liquefied natural gas, or LNG, but has now begun to lay down plans and actual tenders for an entire new gas-powered infrastructure.
It is all still a bit disjointed but in prospect is a vast new industrial undertaking, with new infrastructure and new rules.
Peter Bruce talks to amaBhungane journalist Susan Comrie in this episode of Podcasts From the Edge — she has doggedly and brilliantly stuck with the unfolding gas extravaganza in a series of revealing reports over the past three years.
What she reveals is staggering.
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