[miningmx.com] – ENVIRONMENTAL activist group, Earthlife Africa, marched on Anglo American’s Johannesburg premises yesterday protesting against a plan to build a coal mine and power station in South Africa’s Limpopo province.
“We simply do not have space for such a detrimental amount of pollution that is to come out from that coal-fired power station,” the organisation’s project co-ordinator Tristen Taylor said at a protest.
Anglo said that it would not be generating energy from its planned coal mine. “We have prospecting rights… we have not even applied for mining rights yet,” spokesperson Bheki Khumalo is reported to have said.
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