Well Rod, Ted Blom is an outspoken independent consultant but he...

Well Rod, Ted Blom is an outspoken independent consultant but he knows coal and thermal energy, bit Like Prof Phillip Lloyd our resident Global warming denialist, another good egg by the way.

What he is saying s all true. The water pipeline was planned to be bringing water to the area by 2018, truth is its still not completed to feasibility stage.

The railage capacity needs to be upgraded from 5 mtpa to upwards of 20 to 30 mtpa to supply the Mpumalanga plants, the cliff scenario is around the corner and as Blom states this was highlighted 7 or 8 years ago, but of course Ekom found people with the opposing viewpoint in oder to save them having to do any work or thinking.

The comment re technical staff is also true, no apies (in any number) ave been trained here for close on 20 years. Some municipalities have City engineers who don't know whcich way to unscrew a screwdriver let lone change a water pump.

Grim times here.