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South Africa, the world’s seventh-largest coal producer, faces a climate challenge that has largely flown under the radar: methane emissions from coal mines. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)

Governments’ fossil fuel production plans threaten Paris climate goals, new report warns

It finds that the fossil fuel output will exceed 1.5°C limit by 120% by 2030

  • Sheree Bega
6 min read
The effects of offshore gas projects contribute to a humanitarian crisis, and mainly only the companies and countries of the north benefit from the profits and commodities.

Mozambique: Gas is not part of Africa’s solution to climate change

The effects of offshore gas projects contribute to a humanitarian crisis, and mainly only the companies and countries of the north benefit from the profits and commodities

5 min read
The gas is supplied from Mozambique’s Pande-Temane fields through the Rompco pipeline. Photo: Graham Kietzmann/Sasol

Policy uncertainty to blame for SA running out of gas in two years

Gas imported from Mozambique is scheduled to end by mid-2027

3 min read
According to Minister Ntshavheni, the miners were stuck in the depths of the earth, which was their own doing, and the state would not be involved in any rescue of “criminals”.

Stilfontein miners have human rights just like you, Minister Ntshavheni

Marikana was a precursor to Stifontein and show the lengths to which the state would go to punish people in protection of corporate interests, particularly in the mining industry

  • Eyaaz
5 min read
Vusi Dlamini, head of operations at the Renergen Tetra4 Virginia Gas Project. Photo: Motlatsi Mofokeng
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Free State’s helium gamble: A new energy frontier?

The province is home to the biggest gas and helium project in the country. Will it speed up the shift towards renewable energy sources, or could it potentially hinder progress? Refilwe Mochoari investigates

  • Eyaaz
10 min read
The World Bank’s Mission 300 should focus on renewables as the extraction and burning of gas is expensive would damage the environment and people’s health. Photo: IGUA-SA

Why gas is not the bridge fuel for Africa

The World Bank’s Mission 300 should focus on renewables as the extraction and burning of gas is expensive would damage the environment and people’s health

  • Eyaaz
5 min read
Eskom is inadvertently helping drive the global sustainable energy movement by rapidly pricing South Africans out of the grid energy market. Photo: Waldo Swiegers/Getty Images

South Africa’s energy blueprint needs an overhaul

The draft IRP 2023 fails to address future energy shortages, analysts argue This content is restricted to registered users and subscribers. Get Your Free Account The Mail & Guardian is committed to providing all our readers with the best possible experience. Please register your free account now. Your registration is your first step to becoming an M&G community member. Register Registration enables: – M&G newsletters access – notifications – the best possible experience Already registered? Login here Want to subscribe and get even more benefits? Explore our subscription offers

  • Eyaaz
1 min read
Mineral and Petroleum Resources Minister Gwede Mantashe. Photo: Felix Dlangamandla/Gallo

We want our own nuclear energy now, says Mantashe

The minister called on the US to give South Africa rights to develop nuclear energy

  • Eyaaz
3 min read
A core hole drilling site at dawn. Kinetiko describes the Amersfoort project as South Africa’s largest onshore LNG project. Photo supplied

Mpumalanga gas project aims to bridge just energy transition gap

The development of the R155 million liquefied natural gas pilot is being promoted as a way to alleviate energy shortages while South Africa transitions to renewable energy

  • Umamah Bakharia
8 min read
Engineering teams use the world’s largest crane – Big Carl – to lift a 245-tonne steel dome onto Hinkley Point C’s first reactor building, at the nuclear power station construction site in Bridgwater, Somerset on December 15, 2023. (Photo by Ben Birchall/PA Images via Getty Images)

UK unveils plans for ‘biggest nuclear power expansion in 70 years’

The government says it is committed to the 2050 net zero target but announced last summer it will issue ‘hundreds’ of new oil and gas licences in the North Sea

  • Des Erasmus
3 min read