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"SA is the world’s 19th worst emitter of greenhouse gases.
Its emissions per GDP output are the 7th highest."
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MEDIA - SOUTH AFRICA RELATED

2007 June Amendment bills shock for landowners and environmentalists Environment SA
2007 June Preserve estuary by declaring it a marine reserve Herald - Letters
2007 June River lovers should band together and take on the authorities Herald - Letters
2007 June We should be protecting nature, not allowing developments that damage it Herald - Letters
2007 May South Africa: Threat to Stop Power Lines Cape Argus
2007 May Scramble to secure Coega smelter Business Day
2007 May Public to have say on Eskom hikes Business News
2007 May In Africa, Alcan will use power from coal Montreal Gazette
2007 May Dirty business beware! Sunday Times
2007 May Alcan under attack Financial Mail
2007 May Advocacy group slams 'secret' Alcan power deal Engineering News
2007 May Alcan: Playing the Field? (The reason Alcoa is mentioned on this site - webmaster) Business Week
2007 May Enviro study findings being withheld: NGOs Herald
2007 May Desalination plant gets green light (more cause for concern - webmaster) Sunday Times
2007 Apr Unwise electricity use means coal burnt and more global warming
– it‘s time to rethink		 Herald - Letters
2007 Mar Still many environmental effects of smelter not made known  - in reply
to this letter		 Herald - Letters
2007 Mar Smelter proponents blind to health issues in reply to this letter Herald - Letters
2007 Jan The Coega industrial zone complex Pembazuka News
2006 Nov Playing policies on the market Business Day
2006 Oct Poisoned Spaces - Manufacturing wealth, producing poverty [1.7mbs] .pdf Groundwork
2006 Oct South Africa Embraces Corporate Welfare: Mega Deal Subsidies Over Servies for the Poor Multinational Monitor
2006 June If not an aluminium smelter at Coega, then what? Engineering News
2006 May Top academic slams SA environmental policies Cape Times
2006 Mar Coega's Hazardous Hot Potato Environment SA
2003 June Addo projects create 800 jobs (There are ways to create jobs without having to depend on heavy industry - webmaster) Planets-Voice
2003 May Aluminium smelter could be hazardous Planets-Voice
2003 May Urgent need for EIA regulation Planets-Voice
       

HERE YESTERDAY  -  GONE TOMORROW
 

2006 Sept R750m motorbike plant for PE Herald Thai Summit Grp
2005 Oct New Coega boost as R1,6bn deal clinched Herald MAN-Ferrostaal
2005 May Coega nets first investor  (Scroll down to section) South Africa Info Sander Textile
2000 July Restructuring 2000 - Building The Framework - .pdf - [278kbs]
Chapter 9, page 36 - Coega: Out of the starting blocks at last.		 BusinessMap  
1999 Aug Coega steel plant planning 'on track' Despatch Online Ferrostaal

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