Communities that are home to Africa’s oil and gas projects always suffer. They lose land, they lose sea resources, and they see lots of machines and equipment come into their communities and change their way of life forever while all the money flows to ...
South Africa has awarded 20-year independent power producer procurement deals to local subsidiaries of the Turkish Karadeniz Karpowership group, which produces electricity from LNG on floating ships. The deals, worth more than R220-billion are currently on hold due to challenges by environmental activists, something that Energy Minister Gwede Mantashe is not very happy about.
First, all the talk of keeping gas, oil and coal in the ground pre- and post-COP26 has all but disappeared. After COP26, African leaders kicked up a fuss after UN Special Envoy on Climate Action and Finance Mark Carney and others led a charge to keep fossil fuels in the ground. Nigeria and Egypt’s energy ministers have also railed against what they see as colonialist bullying behaviour by the Global North. They are determined to “pollute now, clean up later”, just like others did. Unless large sums of cash come to them from other sources, of course.
Guilengue says that communities in Cabo Delgado have already lost land, sea and forest resources that the government or Total will never replace. To compound their problems, Total’s investment has attracted Islamic insurgents to the area and forced hundreds of thousands to flee their homes.
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