In Pullens Hope, your eyes itch and your nose clogs. It’s easy to figure out why. On the right side of the main street of the dilapidated village east of Johannesburg is a fenced-off electricity substation with a red sign warning of pollutants. On the left, a power plant belches emissions from burning coal into..
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State owned Eskom is killing South Africans with its China-level pollution
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Eskom wants permission to keep on polluting
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Environmental groups are fuming after Eskom applied for another postponement to regulations that would reduce pollution from one of their power plants.
The Highveld Environmental Justice Network and the Life After Coal Campaign‚ which includes the Centre for Environmental Rights (CER)‚ Earthlife Africa Johannesburg and groundWork‚ objected to Eskom applying for a postponement for their Tutuka power station – near Standerton in Mpumalanga – to comply with the minimum emission standards (MES).
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