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Electricity Minister Dr Kgosientsho Ramokgopa, has announced that the Ministerial Determination for the procurement of 2 500MW of nuclear energy, has been withdrawn during a media briefing in Pretoria on Friday.
Anti-nuclear lobby groups had put the National Energy Regular of South Africa (Nersa) under pressure and had threatened legal action claiming that the procedure to procure nuclear energy had been unfair and that public comment was not solicited.
“I have taken the decision…to withdraw the gazette to allow for that public participation to happen.
“The only time we got to know and be alerted that the process was not subjected to a public consultation process is when the [court] papers were filed and the Minister took the decision that we are withdrawing the gazette; we allow for that public participation so that the process is clean…and transparent,” said Ramokgopa.
The withdrawal comes ahead of a scheduled court
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