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"Are we saying that from now on CCS [carbon capture and storage] will be mandatory for all new power stations? The answer is, Yes," Reuters reported environmental affairs minister, Marthinus van Schalkwyk, as saying.<\/p>\n

No power plant yet operates anywhere in the world with CCS equipment attached, and only a handful of countries including the United States, Britain, Canada and Norway, have pledged public money to test the technology on a commercial scale.<\/p>\n

About 90% of South Africa’s electricity is produced from coal-fired plants.<\/p>\n

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