EDITORIAL: Government finally shows interest in solving gas supply crisis
26 September 2024 - 05:00
For the industrial gas users of SA to describe the government’s support for a tentative collaboration between Sasol and Eskom to aggregate gas demand as “a significant step forward” only goes to show just how little the industry came to expect from the state during the years when minister Gwede Mantashe ruled over energy.
This is the same minister of energy who showed no sense of urgency in adding new electricity generation capacity in SA even as energy supply constraints unfolded into a full-blown load-shedding crisis...
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