GHALEB CACHALIA: Eskom doesn’t care about emissions, or people’s lives
Eskom is full of great promises about its plants and emissions, which turn into nothing but poorly heated air
22 May 2020 - 05:05
Sadly, lives have always had a value that can be arbitraged. With this in mind, the context of the government-imposed lockdown vis-à-vis Eskom’s stance on its power stations is worth interrogation.
It is interesting to note a recent Bloomberg report that Eskom was looking for the terms of a World Bank loan to be relaxed — actually, more a deletion than a relaxation: Eskom is looking to do away with key pollution-abatement equipment because it would cost R42bn...
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