permit facilities to seek suspensions of minimum emission standards compliance if — amongst other factors — such applications are linked to a “detailed decommissioning schedule” for facilities to be shut down by March 2030 31.
Just transition transaction deliberations should also consider that the minister of environment, forestry and fisheries is likely to decide tosulphur dioxide limits from April 2020. This is the date at which any “solid-fuel combustion installations” that have not had minimum emission standards compliance postponed must meet a sulphur dioxide emission limit of 500 mg/Nm3 .
on the health of children, elderly people, pregnant women and those already suffering from asthma, heart disease and lung disease.was launched by Life after Coal following years of engagement and advocacy with industry and the government about acute air pollution in the Mpumalanga Highveld.
As the just transition transaction continues to develop, we urge the government to consider the risks — and who bears them — of Eskom’s ongoing noncompliance with the law, its pending minimum emissions standards applications, and the proposed weakening of the sulphur dioxide minimum emissions standard.