opinion
Last week, conservative think tank the Institute of Race Relations (IRR) condemned environmental justice organisations’ legal challenge of government’s decision to allow Eskom to bypass air pollution controls at its Kusile coal power station.
The IRR says South Africa cannot afford “fashionable ideological indulgences” and that the exemptions given to Eskom should stand.
For context, in October last year, Eskom lost the operation of three units at Kusile when a flue duct collapsed under the weight of ash build-up inside the pipe. As part of ongoing efforts to bring more units
