The Centre for Natural Resources (CNRG) said coal investment in the country was a misplaced priority. A keeper of mining rights said that the country’s addiction to coal was not healthy for citizens adding this did not only go against Zimbabwe’s own policies and strategies but globally agreed frameworks also.
A lobby group said that Coal extraction and burning not only has serious environmental impacts on land, water and air, but has social impacts on the human population too, resulting in many smothering to chronic diseases such as tuberculosis.Also extraction is a major contributor to global warming. It also creates an ecological imbalance.
Data source: New Zimbabwe
