CANE - Coalition Against Nuclear Energy South Africa

“Open the door for discussion…”

Public Enterprises director-general Portia Molefe’s letter to the FM on 12 October 2007 refers:

Dear Portia Molefe

Your 12 October letter to the FM and is noted with grave concern not only for the standard “P.R.” lines which are common from the nuclear industry itself, but for the recalcitrance of senior officials and decision-makers in this country to determine for yourselves the truth about nuclear energy and the nuked workers in our country, let alone nuked communities such as Wonderfonteinspruit and others.

The “alarmist misinformation” you write about is based on hard facts backed up…

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Concerns Mount Over Nuclear Energy After Series of Scares

The problem at Brunsbüttel, one of 17 nuclear reactors in Germany, is by no means the only mishap in recent months that…

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Lights on now, but a million years of disposal problems

Lights on now, but a million years of disposal problems

The role nuclear energy can and will play in a carbon constrained future is being hotly debated – particularly by socially responsible investors.

Nuclear power is routinely excluded from socially responsible investment fund portfolios, along with other often-maligned industries including tobacco, alcohol and mining.

But with demand for energy growing, oil prices climbing and concerns about climate change on the rise, some argue it is time to include nuclear power in the responsible energy equation.

Calvert, a leading US socially responsible investor,…

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Submission to the Department of Minerals and Energy
on the draft for public comment of the document
Nuclear Energy Policy and Strategy for the Republic of South Africa
from
NECTEC
Nuclear Energy Costs the Earth Campaign,
Earthlife Africa, Johannesburg

0. Participation of civil society is minimal and problematic.

We welcome the opportunity to make submissions to the policy process. However, in our view that the policy process is misplaced, having had no input from civil society in its very formulation. Gone are the days in our democracy when different sectors of society were drawn into the policy making process. Now…

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Public Comment: Nuclear Energy Policy & Strategy for the Republic of South Africa

The Department of Minerals and Energy has invited the public to make written submissions on the Nuclear Energy Policy and Strategy.

Deadline: 17 October 2007

For Attention: The Director-General, Mr T Maqubela

Postal Address:  Private Bag X59, Pretoria, 0001

Or Fax:              012 322 8570

Or Email:  kedibone.theko@dme.gov.za

The document is available at HERE  , HERE   or HERE   (PDF - Adobe Acrobat Format)

Contact Person:

Mr T Maqubela 012 317 8340

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