Climate Politics
How South Africa Botched Its First Coal Power-Plant Transition
- Plans for new jobs around Komati came too late, study shows
- Ministers misled communities over plant viability: commission
The Komati coal-fired power station.
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South Africa’s transition away from the dirtiest fossil fuel has been marred by the botched approach to the closure of a coal-fired power plant, the first under a key climate policy initiative.