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 | In recent months, the Department of Environmental Affairs (DEA) has made it clear that it intends to streamline and align legislation and step up enforcement of the requirements to hold environmental authorisations under the National Environmental Management Act, No 107 of 1998 (NEMA) and waste management licences under the National Environmental Management: Waste Act, No 59 of 2008 (Waste Act). Read more >>
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 | China is exploiting Africa's resources just like European colonisers did, with disastrous effects for the environment, acclaimed primatologist Jane Goodall told AFP. Read more >>
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 | Plastics|SA will be telling the story of plastics in a series of light-hearted, but educational English and Afrikaans radio spots that will be broadcast between 17 and 23 February 2014. Read more >>
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 | PRETORIA: The Northern Cape is ready to become South Africa's renewable energy hub through the construction of large solar and wind power stations, Premier Sylvia Lucas said on Friday, 21 February 2014. Read more >>
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 | The Norwegian solar energy provider, Scatec Solar, have started construction on East Africa's first utility-scale solar photovoltaic (PV) park. The 8.5 megawatt (MW) project in Rwanda is scheduled to go online by July. Read more >>
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 | PRETORIA: The Gauteng MEC for Infrastructure Development, Qedani Mahlangu, says there is a need to develop policies that address issues of energy security, social equity and environmental sustainability. Read more >>
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 | Designers and innovators, inventors and creators, students and professionals, manufacturers and retailers - local and beyond SA's borders - are encouraged to enter the Better Living Challenge (BLC), which opens this month. Read more >>
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 | WASHINGTON, USA: Google, environmentalists and governments have unveiled a state-of-the-art database to track deforestation, hoping to increase levels of law enforcement to prevent it. Read more >>
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 | Water and Environmental Affairs Minister Edna Molewa has invited the public and interested parties to submit comments on the draft Bio-prospecting, Access and Benefit Sharing (BABS) amendment regulations. Read more >>
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EnviroCon 2014Environmental Assurance (Pty) Ltd - 22 Oct 2014 to 24 Oct 2014 Pretoria |
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