tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-84648289271745337262012-03-02T02:48:25.040-08:00groundWorkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10595473975980881909noreply@blogger.comBlogger41100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8464828927174533726.post-14929506739919182922012-02-24T02:52:00.000-08:002012-02-29T03:00:25.932-08:00

Bobby Peek Electricity pricing is a contentious issue in South Africa.  Just reflect on the very many demonstrations and arrests of people at the National Energy Regulator of South African (NERSA) hearings in early 2010. Once again NERSA will have to prepare itself for another round of consultations with the public, as it proposes the next multi-year price increase in electricity. Will

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The Waste Tyre Green Levy – boon or doom for the peoples’ or green economy... oops capitalism? RicoEuripidou Unwittingly, South Africans are rolling into a dirty situation. As the brutal war between the South African Tyre Recycling Process Company (SATRP) and the Recycling and Economic Development Initiative of South Africa (REDISA) unfolds for the control of the waste tyre green

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OK. We all know what a cop is and we now know what a COP is. And, as the slogan said, we can’t find a good one. It is true that the official delegates did not get into a big circle to follow Todd Stern chanting ‘burn baby, burn’. Todd Stern, for those who don’t know him, is the head honcho of the US delegation. It cannot be said that he or they have acted alone. Pretty much everyone has

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The Durban outcome. COP17 failed the world… as expected. Bobby Peek Ahead of the COP, African Ministers met in Bamako and agreed that, to save the world, we need to limit temperature increase to well below 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels; that the major historical polluters (AKA the rich Northern countries) must reduce their emissions by at least 40 percent by 2017, and that

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