‘World’s Most Polluting Power Company’ Eskom Delays $2.5 Billion Anti-Pollution System

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Now due to be installed by 2027, the system would curb emissions of a chemical that causes acid rain.

The deadline is part of the terms of a $3.75 billion loan Eskom obtained from the World Bank in 2010 to help build the plant., a chemical that decreases tree growth, contributes to acid rain and causes heart and respiratory damage.

Eskom claims that the anti-pollution system would increase the plant’s water consumption and increase carbon dioxide emissions.that South Africa’s Department of Environmental Affairs had rejected the company’s prior application to loosen air pollution limits at some of its plants. That decision, which Eskom plans to appeal, could result in more than a third of the company’s power generation capacity being shut down, the company warned.... [+]Eskom is the largest emitter of sulfur dioxide in the world, with emissions exceeding the national power sectors of the U.S. and China combined, according to aby the Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air, which declared Eskom “the world’s most polluting power company” in terms of sulfur dioxide emissions.

 

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