Eskom wants to destroy our Culture!

Having grown up in the quaint and bustling holiday town of St Francis Bay, it was with quite a lot of horror and rage that I learnt of Eskom's (South Africa's totalitarian and competitor free power supplier) plans to build a Nuclear Power Station in the Eco sensitive Thyspunt. This is one of the last places on our Eastern Seaboard that is still untouched by development or bloody water sucking golf courses! To replace this nirvana of nature and fynbos with nuclear plant simply gets my gall up.

So, it was with great joy and rapture that I read this article which appeared in the Weekend Post, Port Elizabeth, over the weekend -
Weekend Post Article - Delight, joy as nuke plant rejected
 
The main story in the article is that the South African heritage council, working alongside the San people, have blocked Eskom's plans, due to the wide distribution of ancient San traps at the location - which would be destroyed due to the development of the Nuclear Plant and certainly become inaccessible to people wanting to experience a part of our history. Happy days, or so we think...

Three days later and the following article appears in the Herald Newspaper -
Herald Article - Eskom’s Thyspunt nuclear plant study continues
Which basically states that Eskom does not care about the Heritage Council's findings and will continue their own investigations into the feasibility of the project. Once again the corporate giant thinks little of anything except profit and growth - even if it is at the cost of our own heritage and natural bounty.

There are so many reasons for them to stop this from happening, but Eskom it seems are blind to our concerns!

Many animals who call the bay home - such as Olly the Otter, who spent a morning with us frolicking in the rocks in front of the proposed site - will lose their homes and feeding areas. The San will lose one of their largest heritage sights!



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