Eskom to Be Charged With Misleading Regulator Over Pollution (2)

Eskom Holdings SOC Ltd., South Africa’s biggest polluter, said it will be charged with supplying misleading information to a government air quality officer, exceeding emission limits at the Kendal coal-fired power plant and breaching its Atmospheric Emission License.

The 4,116-megawatt facility had its pollution abatement equipment damaged during a 2018 strike and has since been the subject of a series of orders from the environment department mainly relating to the emission of particulate matter, which causes respiratory disease. Eskom said the case will be heard on Jan. 28.

Kendal’s problems have driven air pollution from the utility to a ...