South Africa: SA’s new environment minister throws potential lifeline to sinking Karpowership deal

In a written decision signed on 17 July, the newly appointed minister of forestry, fisheries and the environment, senior Democratic Alliance party member Dion George, dismissed an appeal by two environmental justice groups against his department’s decision to grant environmental authorisation to Karpowership to moor two powerships in Richards Bay harbour to supply “emergency power” to the Eskom grid.

In his 187-page ruling, George rejected all 15 grounds of appeal by the Centre for…