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COINCIDING with Youth Month, environmental activists are calling on the government to “Cancel Coal” – a campaign which will run until today.

The campaign, spearheaded by the African Climate Alliance (ACA), Vukani Environmental Movement, groundwork, and the Centre for Environmental Rights, seeks to halt the development of new coal mining in South Africa.

It supports a court case, launched in September last year, which seeks to block the government’s plan to build 1 500MW coal-fired power stations.

The ACA Cancel Coal task force, Petra de Beer, Basetsana Pitso, Mukhethwa Kwinda and Sibusiso Mazomba, said poorly regulated mining and coal-fired power generation in the country were worsening air and water pollution, which caused health effects, loss of biodiversity and destruction of arable land. |

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