Energy: SA ditches 'dirty' coal: South Africa: Power Crisis: News24
Cape Town - Government said on Monday it would move away from cheap coal - long the engine of South Africa's economic growth - and embrace nuclear and renewable energy in a bid to combat climate change.
South Africa relies on its coal mines for 90 percent of its energy and has sought to attract electricity guzzling industries such as aluminum smelters as a key plank of its foreign investment policy.
But Environment Minister Marthinus van Schalkwyk said that would now change under a newly agreed cabinet policy.
"We are saying to business and society at large that we have to move away from dirty coal as a dominant energy source," he said. Instead, the government would promote greater use of renewable energy and nuclear fuel.
"The longer we wait the more expensive it will become," he told a news conference.
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ya, but they are now selling their coal to Germany, who is getting out of nukes and building 26 new coal fired plants.
Go figure
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