source: Mmegi
BRIAN BENZA
Staff writer
Botswana Stock Exchange (BSE) listed Aviva Corporation says the planned 1000MW Mmamantswe power project is still part of their plans although Eskom’s current position has shifted the project focus from short term to medium or long term.
In a quarterly update, the company which is sitting on 1.3 billion tonnes of coal reserves [...]
source: Mmegi
EPHRAIM KEORENG
Staff Writer
For the past two years Botswana has experienced a few radioactive incidents. Speaking at an event held to discuss Botswana`s nuclear security support plan Radiation Protection Inspectorate director Stephen Williams said in 2008 his department attended to two incidents in Palapye and Mmamabula Coal Mine.
He said at the mine around December 2008, [...]
source: Sunday Standard
by Telegraph Reporter
14.01.2010 9:52:23 A
As Botswana welcomes new projects like the proposed mega size Mmamabula coal-fired energy project, the country might find itself in the ‘wrong’ side of emission, it has been warned.
Sitting on large quantities of coal reserves, Botswana has invited energy investors to undertake such projects that in future will export [...]
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source: Mmegi
MARANYANE NGWANAAMOTHO
Staff Writer
Immediate cutting of gas emissions by developing countries like Botswana would curb development, says Minister of Environment, Wildlife and Tourism, Onkokame Mokaila.
Molaila says that at the just ended Copenhagen Climate Change Conference they proposed that Botswana be allowed to keep on producing gases in development activities, reach the peak stage and thereafter [...]
source: Sunday Standard
by KABO MOKGOABONE
21.12.2009 12:06:23 P
Government this week assured CIC Energy and investors that it is still behind the Mmamabula Energy Project that will eventually narrow trade deficit between South African and Botswana, despite stumbling blocks in Pretoria.
The Botswana and Canada-listed company this week, out of frustration and tedious regulatory process in South Africa, [...]
source: BOPA
18 December, 2009
PARLIAMENT – Developers of Mmamabula Energy Project, CIC Energy, have deferred certain activities pending conclusion of integrated resource plan (IRP) undertaken by the South African government.
The IRP, adopted after the introduction of new electricity regulations on generation capacity, provided guidelines for Eskom, (the South African power authority) to purchase power from independent [...]