{"id":29033,"date":"2023-06-19T11:29:51","date_gmt":"2023-06-19T11:29:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/vice-president-appeals-to-morupule-coal-mine"},"modified":"2023-06-19T12:01:47","modified_gmt":"2023-06-19T12:01:47","slug":"vice-president-appeals-to-morupule-coal-mine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/vice-president-appeals-to-morupule-coal-mine","title":{"rendered":"VICE PRESIDENT APPEALS TO MORUPULE COAL MINE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Botswana. <\/strong><\/span><b>The Vice President, Mr Slumber Tsogwane, has appealed to Morupule Coal Mine to explore the value chain development in the coal industry.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Mr Tsogwane was speaking during his tour of Morupule Coal Mine on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>He urged the mine to observe the global trend, adding \u2018today we are talking about clean energy and greenhouse gases. We should be in a position to be saying what this meant to us. Where is the value preposition of these products going forward?\u2019<\/p>\n<p>He, however, said he was glad that Morupule Coal Mine was talking about value chain development and not \u2018the old story\u2019 of extraction and exportation of raw materials.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Tsogwane also pleaded with Morupule Coal Mine to look into the risks of the industry and plan ahead of times.<\/p>\n<p>He also called for consideration of the environmental sustainability and integrated energy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have talked about deforestation because some sectors of government are dependent on wood,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Some ministries, Mr Tsogwane said, were culprits since they harvested a lot of wood.<\/p>\n<p>Therefore, he urged them to comply with clean energy initiatives.<\/p>\n<p>The Vice President also applauded Morupule mine for transforming from original objectives of extracting and exporting the raw materials.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe know that you will never get a complete value of your product when you follow such processes, we are very much aware of that but it is a process where we all started and moved with times,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The mine\u2019s chief executive officer, Mr Edwin Elias, said they were working on a strategy, which should be completed before the end of the year.<\/p>\n<p>He said it was the mine\u2019s intention to create value for stakeholders in an innovative and agile manner as well as respond to any market challenges.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Elias said they envisioned to become a partner of choice on global coal transition.<\/p>\n<p>He also assured the Vice President that the mine would identify the right partners to create value from the product as they move into clean energy.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\">Botswana<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Botswana. The Vice President, Mr Slumber Tsogwane, has appealed to Morupule Coal Mine to explore the value chain development in the coal industry. Mr Tsogwane was speaking during his tour of Morupule Coal Mine on Thursday. He urged the mine to observe the global trend, adding \u2018today we are talking about clean energy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":29032,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,7,12],"tags":[233,237,234],"class_list":["post-29033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-head-lines","category-policy","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-botswana","tag-botswana"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>VICE PRESIDENT APPEALS TO MORUPULE COAL MINE - Botswana<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Vice President, Mr Slumber Tsogwane, has appealed to Morupule Coal Mine to explore the value chain development in ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/vice-president-appeals-to-morupule-coal-mine\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"VICE PRESIDENT APPEALS TO MORUPULE COAL MINE\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Vice President, Mr Slumber Tsogwane, has appealed to Morupule Coal Mine to explore the value chain development in ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/vice-president-appeals-to-morupule-coal-mine\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Botswana\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2023-06-19T11:29:51+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2023-06-19T12:01:47+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/botswana\/sites\/38\/2023\/06\/sm_1687159347.976228.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"700\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/vice-president-appeals-to-morupule-coal-mine#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/vice-president-appeals-to-morupule-coal-mine\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"VICE PRESIDENT APPEALS TO MORUPULE COAL MINE\",\"datePublished\":\"2023-06-19T11:29:51+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2023-06-19T12:01:47+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/vice-president-appeals-to-morupule-coal-mine\"},\"wordCount\":352,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/vice-president-appeals-to-morupule-coal-mine#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/botswana\/sites\/38\/2023\/06\/sm_1687159347.976228.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Botswana\",\"Botswana\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"head lines\",\"policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/vice-president-appeals-to-morupule-coal-mine#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/vice-president-appeals-to-morupule-coal-mine\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/vice-president-appeals-to-morupule-coal-mine\",\"name\":\"VICE PRESIDENT APPEALS TO MORUPULE COAL MINE - 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