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Eskom, already named as the world’s biggest sulfur dioxide emitter, is seeking approval to release more of the pollutant linked to ailments ranging from asthma to heart attacks. | News24_Business

The move is part of an attempt by the company to reduce the level of temporary blackouts the nation is facing as a result of its inability to meet demand.

By doing so, Eskom could return the units to operation a year earlier than if it first connected them to the FGD by building temporary structures while repairs continue to a duct that collapsed in March 2022. Rotational blackouts occurred on more than 200 days in 2022 as Eskom’s plants repeatedly broke down, and varying levels of outages have been imposed every day so far in 2023. President Cyril Ramaphosa last week to enable the government to accelerate its response to the energy crisis.

Kusile, one of Eskom’s two newest plants, is the only coal-fired one out of the 14 it operates to use the technology, which costs billions of dollars to install.An overview of the challenges and opportunities of the climate crisis, as it changes the world we know.By temporarily bypassing the pollution abatement unit, Eskom will increase emissions of SO2 eightfold, to 80 000 tonnes at Kusile alone, said Lauri Myllivirta, lead analyst at the Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air.

 

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_Business News24 what is your agenda? The question should be :why the powerstation manager allowing his plant to run like this?. It was designed to operate within national and international emission standards. Appoint competent maintenance manager and maint. personnel.

_Business Biden gave $8 billion to stop doing it but Eskom doesn't GAF 😂🤣😂

_Business SA is still not in the top ten most polluter in the world. I agree with them

_Business Earth is flat with a solid dome called Firmament. We live in a close system. Earth Nature recycle itself. G7 countries are misleading us yet they are the ones that pollute more than us. One day individual will pay for breathing oxygen

_Business Get China to stop polluting and you solve the problem.

_Business Let them pollute us with electricity ,this magical 🌎 earth will deal with gases from it's own creation coal no different to all other wonders it offers & reclaims ;volcanoes ,floods , drought etc, He who did not create can only impose control ,yes over there , u scientist...

_Business Nah nah another strategy to make politicians rich through bribes…. The same coal will be exported to these countries that made the reports.. nah stop with your bull$h!¥

_Business All these years they were 'polluting' without any of these alarmist posts you're making. You guys are part of this loadshedding propaganda 🤞🏾

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_Business This is great news.

_Business Loadshedding must stop, it's causing jobs to be lost. The extra pollution is temporary.

_Business 🤣🤣🤣Guys please

_Business Go for it - it's only kusile that has that system.

_Business More than china , I think you fibbing!

_Business Doing your part for Agenda2030 I see, real wef georgesoros narrative and agenda pushing...

_Business _Business 👇👇

_Business China want to ramp up to 270GW while South African coal power stations barely achieve 20GW. Vax24 transformed into AntiCoal24 very quickly. 🤡🌎

_Business News24 has an agenda...i suppose they promoting green energy we can't afford.

_Business So.. lets plant them trees

_Business What are they waiting for? Start pumping and let's get the show on the road. There is no time for the clean-energy-climate-change-BS virtue signalling everyone is obsessed with.

_Business Hahahaha pump it up!

_Business As a temporary 12 months permit, giving permission is ok! After 12 months, the units must be shut down, and desulfurisation is installed. We need to buy some time to let other projects catch up

_Business But they are releasing it for nothing coz we dnt have power🤷🏾‍♂️ this is both so funny 🤭 and deadly 😰

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_Business Go see China🥴

_Business You’re sick

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