Richard Halsey complains that the Department of Energy had not by November 28 put on its website "important annexures" to its latest Integrated Resource Plan (IRP). (Public short-circuited, December 5). After his letter the department censored out of the IRP on its website references to these unpublished annexures. So yet again public watchdogs will be required to make another Promotion of Access to Information Act application to prise out of the nuclear lobby what it prefers to keep secret. Halsey’s letter also notes the department’s strategy to minimise public consultation by publishing 700 pages of documents with a deadline of about a week for public comment. To ensure as few members of the public as possible comment, it planned the release for the end of November and early December. This is the identical technique used by the environmental impact assessment consultants in 2015. We can predict the next Department of Energy/Eskom documents for public comment will be released in De...
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