'New bill to ready SA for oil shortage'
The likelihood of massive worldwide crude oil shortages in the next few decades may mean that South Africans will have to bite the bullet in the ongoing energy crisis while alternatives are developed.
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The department's deputy director-general for hydrocarbons and energy planning, Nhlanhla Gumede, told MPs that a draft National Energy Bill, which had been in the making for the past five years, would be submitted to the cabinet by May for its consideration.
The legislation would seek to create a co-ordinated plan to deal with the energy crisis and to develop a strategy for the current need to urgently generate and produce renewable energy.
Eskom said last week that part of the steep price hikes it was proposing was to raise money for investment in renewable energy sources.
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