Sep 7, 2016 | Climate Change, Energy Justice
SAFCEI is one of the 28 organisations that signed on to this open letter sent to the Ministers of Energy, Public Enterprises, Environmental Affairs and Health, asking them to ensure Eskom’s compliance with obligations to protect the environment and human health. NGO...
Aug 2, 2016 | Energy Justice, Environmental Advocacy, Nuclear
In July we were excited to receive the news of a large-scale withdrawal of the uranium mining developers Australian Tasman Pacific Minerals Limited and Lukisa JVCo in the Karoo. On 6 July they announced that they would withdraw their current uranium mining application...
Mar 2, 2016 | Energy Justice, Green Bishop, Nuclear
SAFCEI commends the Minister of Finance Pravin Gordhan for steadying South Africa’s ship, bringing the country back from the brink and creating an element of stability to the nation’s finances. We hear now that government will only expand nuclear energy capacity...
Feb 17, 2016 | Energy Justice, Nuclear
The government has indicated that they will be going ahead with procuring 9600MW of nuclear power to meet energy needs. However they are doing so using an outdated – and contested – electricity plan from the 2010 Integrated Resource Plan for Electricity (IRP). The IRP...
Nov 3, 2015 | Energy Justice, Nuclear
Our nuclear campaign has bounded ahead in these last weeks and SAFCEI marked several momentous occasions. The most exciting one was the launch of our court action, which was officially announced on 15th October. Together with Earthlife Africa Johannesburg (ELA-Jhb),...
