{"id":2462,"date":"2019-05-19T07:21:39","date_gmt":"2019-05-19T07:21:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=2462"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:17","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:17","slug":"financing-new-coal-is-the-quick-road-to-financial-and-environmental-ruin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/05\/19\/financing-new-coal-is-the-quick-road-to-financial-and-environmental-ruin\/","title":{"rendered":"Financing New Coal Is the Quick Road to Financial And Environmental Ruin"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>By<a href=\"http:\/\/dailymaverick.co.za\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong><em>Daily Maverick<\/em><\/strong><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On 1 July 2019, South Africans will be paying more for\nelectricity when the recently approved 14% Eskom tariff hike by Nersa (the\nNational Energy Regulator) is enforced. This hike is set to occur alongside\nrising food and fuel costs and will add financial pressure on South African\nhouseholds, hitting the poorest consumers the hardest. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymaverick.co.za\/article\/2019-05-15-financing-new-coal-is-the-quick-road-to-financial-and-environmental-ruin\/\">Read\nmore&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ByDaily Maverick. On 1 July 2019, South Africans will be paying more for electricity when the recently approved 14% Eskom tariff hike by Nersa (the National Energy Regulator) is enforced.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2463,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[104],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-analysis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2462\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}