Environmental groups are up in arms against energy regulator Nersa’s announcement that the public hearings into controversial Turkish company Karpowership’s plan to bring floating Liquified Natural Gas ships to the country.
It’s part of the energy department’s Risk Mitigation Independent Power Producer Procurement Programme to add more energy capacity to the national grid.
Strategic lead of lobby group Green Connection, Liziwe Mcdaid says that the proposed date of the 25th of March is too soon and has not allowed them sufficient time to collate all the voices of the affected communities.
“We were not aware of it and we had provided comment into the Karpower gas licences at the beginning of March. We were not told and it’s impossible to think how communities participate with only one or two days’ notice, so this seems a very strange procedure and the impact is to undermine public consultation and we call on Nersa to withdraw this and put forth a proper process.”
