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Chinese coal projects threaten to wreck plans for a renewable future in Sub-Saharan Africa CNN 12/10/2020 By Eoin McSweeney, CNN Business © Lintao Zhang/Pool/AFP/Getty Images Chinese President Xi Jinping (right) shakes hands with his Zimbabwean counterpart President, Emmerson Mnangagwa on September 5, 2018, a day after the conclusion of the Forum On China-Africa Cooperation. When the Ghanaian government agreed to coordinate with Shenzen Energy Group, a Chinese energy company, to build a 7,000-megawatt coal power plant in the country s Ekumfi district, Chibeze Ezekiel was concerned. He knew the proposed plant s wastewater, ash pit and mercury emissions posed serious health and environmental risks to the local fishing and farming communities. Access to clean drinking water was under threat from the plant s sulfur dioxide emissions and associated acid rain, and there would have been a clear impact on the regional climate.

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