South Africa's Department of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment affairs has refused to give authorisation to Turkish powership company- Karpowership, blocking the energy company from provinding emergency power to the debilitated South African grid. The application was dismissed on environmental grounds. Karpowership was named as a major winner in a government emergency power tender designed to help ease crippling power cuts. For analysis on this we are now joined on the line by Professor Mark Swilling, the Co-Director for Centre for Sustainability Transitions at the Stellenbosch University in South Africa....

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