Tony Carnie

Environmental Affairs Deputy Minister Narend Singh says his department is offering ‘input' to the NPA on criminal charges against agrochemical giant UPL regarding the environmental impact of a 2021 warehouse fire.

A second cabinet minister has driven another nail into the coffin of the controversial Karpowership electricity deal, declaring that: ‘For all intents and purposes, Karpowership is dead’.

A consortium of European and local energy companies is planning to build a massive, 810 MW wind farm off the coast of Richards Bay – featuring turbines taller than the country’s biggest skyscrapers.

Green hydrogen projects could help to expand and strengthen South Africa’s energy grid, allowing more renewable energy projects to be hooked up to the national grid, especially in parts of Northern and Eastern Cape.

Water cuts this week in the Durban North, Virginia and uMhlanga area have been attributed to rapid algae growth caused by high temperatures, but the city isn't discounting pollution as a potential cause.

The fuel giant's request came to light after the company wrote letters to the KZN Appeals Administrator asking for a reduction of three administrative fines imposed on 30 August.

The dehorning project in the Hluhluwe-iMfolozi rhino sanctuary in KwaZulu-Natal has suffered a setback, with at least 20 dehorned animals gunned down for their remnant horn stumps over the past month.

Tens of thousands of indigenous trees — including baobabs and other specially protected species — are set to be the first casualties of a massive heavy industry development plan in Limpopo. The scheme is driven by the provincial government and Chinese developers, who have touted it as ‘the most competitive energy metallurgy special zone in the world’.

The deputy environment minister says that fines of R5m, R10m or R20m for environmental offences are insignificant for certain offenders.

The six-year flow of raw sewage and industry effluent into the Vaal River and Vaal Dam from the Dipaleseng (Balfour) local municipality may be nearing an end at last after the municipality owned up to ‘dire neglect and mismanagement’ of the local wastewater treatment works.