South Africa: Greenpeace takes government to court over nuclear regulations


Issue 296 - 12 Mar 2015 | 2 minute read

Greenpeace has served papers to energy minister Tina Joemat-Pettersson, the National Nuclear Regulator (NNR) and finance minister Nhlanhla Nene through the sheriff of the Pretoria High Court in an attempt to force the government to update its decade-old nuclear liability regulations. A court date will be set, and Greenpeace senior climate and energy campaign manager Melita Steele told African Energy that the organisation hoped a judgement would be reached this year. Greenpeace said in a statement that South Africa’s nuclear liability regulations were “completely inadequate” having not been updated since May 2004.

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