So. Africa: NGO appeals environmental authorization of Engie coal plant on grounds of negative health and environmental impacts
'Earthlife Africa’s appeal pushes back new coal-fired power station in water-stressed Limpopo', 18 May 2015:...Earthlife Africa...has launched an appeal against the approval granted for the proposed…Thabametsi coal-fired power station…an independent power producer…One of the shareholders…is…French company Engie (previously GDF Suez)...On Friday, 15 May 2015, more than a thousand...[people] marched to the French Consulate…to protest investment by…Engie in coal in South Africa…The appeal against the environmental authorisation is based on grounds that include…water-stress…threat[s]…[to] ambient air quality, and…human and environmental health. The project fails to take into account the state’s international and national obligations to mitigate and take positive steps against climate change…