POWER GENERATION: Limpopo’s Lephalale – the SA town that coal built

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A trip to the Limpopo town Lephalale, which hosts two coal-fired power stations and a coal mine, makes it clear why this dirty energy source will be so difficult to dislodge as South Africa’s prime choice for generating electricity – and why the town ...

 

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You guys where all up in arms when Zuma wanted to build a new nuclear plant. Now you a the custodians of clean energy.

That's fine, we need power, the only real clean source is nuclear and that will take even longer

The world looks down on us because gasses those plants expel gets equally dispersed throughout the atmosphere. That’s why advanced nations moved away from it. Coal in SA is there to create the new elite, F the cost. Why couldn’t they’ve chosen solar? Fools.

Actually what you meant is that the corruption in Limpopo is so deeply entrenched that the corrupt cANCer bosses won’t allow the province to be dislodged as a primary source for their pig troughs. Are you inhumane or something, do you want the corrupt fascists to starve ?

Hence the contention drop the term 'Just transition' & call it 'Clean energy rev.' or something like that. Since there is little consideration of the related social aspect, related businesses & associated jobs. We need to go green but SA hasn't properly prepared for the move...

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