The African Energy Chamber, which represents the African hydrocarbon industry, held its annual African Energy Week in Cape Town, South Africa over Oct. 16-20. This comes on the eve of COP28, scheduled for Nov. 30-Dec. 12 in Dubai, U.A.E. The climate change lobby was not amused by the Africa event, which celebrated the expansion of the oil, gas, coal and nuclear energy sectors for the benefit of the industrialization of Africa. Speaking for the hysterical climate lobby, South African newspaper, Daily Maverick, published a long article denouncing the conference under the title “Africa Energy Week: Where Climate Science Makes Way for the Gods of Gas and Coal.”
The theme of the conference was “The African Energy Renaissance: Prioritizing Energy Poverty, People, the Planet, Industrialization and Free Markets.” Almost every African government and energy-related business and state energy company attended the event. The Daily Maverick screamed that “its speakers ferociously pushed back against global calls for an immediate transition from fossil fuels....”
Namibian President Hage Geingob told the conference: “For the African energy renaissance to be meaningful, Africa should be permitted to explore and exploit its natural endowments for the good of the continent. It should not be for export to other countries, but for the benefit of African people.”
The American fossil fuel advocate Alex Epstein who authored The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels, called in his speech for African countries to withdraw from the 2015 COP21 Paris Agreement.
