Hon Chair, the department's plans and resource allocations do not assist with curbing the ecological disaster facing humanity as a result of global warming.
South Africa is one of the greatest greenhouse gas emitters. This Budget Vote is silent on the many communities that live amid high industrial toxicity. The EFF very clearly says no to nuclear energy. We must remember Chernobyl and the disaster in Japan. Let's not repeat the same mistakes. We say no to shale gas fracking and no to coal-based energy sources. We must ask: Who is going to pay the human and ecological debt of capitalist profiteering?
The mining houses have poisoned the water sources on the Reef, yet it is the department that is paying to clean up their acid-mine drainage mess. The mines continue to exploit and poison our people. Let us adopt the One Million Climate Jobs. Let us demand that polluters pay their ecological and social debt. Let us say no to GMO food and no to more emissions from fossil fuels or nuclear radiation. It can be done. The EFF objects to this budget.