JOHANNESBURG (miningweekly.com) – South Africa’s support for the outcomes of the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, held in Rio de Janeiro from June 20 to June 22, and known as Rio+20 for short, does not mean the country is going to turn its back on coal.
“As South Africa, we are not about to abandon our coal reserves,” assured Water Affairs and Environment Minister Edna Molewa in Pretoria on Monday. She was briefing the media on the outcomes of the conference.
“We are not going to throw our coal into the sea,” concurred Women, Children and People with Disabilities Minister Lulu Xingwana at the same briefing. “We are going to use clean technologies to improve our coal.” Read more here...
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