Chad Cupido of Cape Conscious Media's Edutainment Podcast interviewed DRL on the Muizenberg Electricity Crisis Committee (MECC), environmentalism, energy cooperatives, microgrids, nuclear power, Koeberg, the War in Ukraine and much more. Here is t...
Category: Environment
AfriForum & Andrew Kenny — should the nuclear industry be pizza-boxed?
NUCLEAR pundits had a ball this weekend. While Andrew Kenny was trolling female environmentalists such as Greta Thunberg, behaving much the same way as his namesake Andrew Tate, who is currently incarcerated in Romania for running a 'lover-boy' sex scam, AfriForum announced they were starting an...
SA Astonishing failure to plan transition away from ICE
EVEN if there was no war in Ukraine and no embargo against Russian oil and gas, South Africa would find itself in a pretty pickle, forced to import fuel directly. It is not just our strategic fuel reserves which have been plundered, but our capacity to refine crude in the face of a global transit...
Tritium found in groundwater outside Koeberg
INFORMATION released by environmental organisation Koeberg Alert Alliance (KAA), point to ongoing reactor design problems associated with normal operations at the plant. In particular the production of elemental Tritium (3H) and tritiated water (3H2O) during the course of nuclear fission. The org...
Climate Justice: Andile Mlambo vs John Kane-Berman
TWO environment pieces illustrate diametrically opposed views in SA: "We are experiencing a climate renaissance in my community, Tembisa, evident by the renewed interest — from the youth, the middle aged and the elderly — in climate issues" writes Andile Mlambo. Meanwhile John Kane-Berman has pen...
Shell Wild Coast : The struggle against whaling has come full circle
SOUTH AFRICA comprehensively banned the practice of whaling in 1979. The campaign to 'save the whales' is one of our oldest conservation movements, predating the later environmental justice movement which emerged during the 1980s. This week, Royal Dutch Shell was given the go-ahead to invade trad...