Good afternoon. Should Mozambique be trying to dig up all its fossil fuels after all? That is a question that some politicians are asking in view of how the United States government under President Donald Trump has firmly turned its back on preventing climate change, and instead wants to maximise the use of fossil fuels.
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Trump’s energy secretary, Chris Wright, made headlines this week with a speech to energy company executives where he eulogised fossil fuel generation and said that “coal transformed our world and made it better”. A few days earlier, Wright told the Powering Africa Summit in Washington that “we see an Africa that boldly embraces every form of energy and energy technology, bar none.”
Even before Trump’s return to the White House, of course, Mozambique had not turned its back on fossil fuels. Gas plays a major part in the government’s energy transition strategy, and developers are free to continue opening and operating coal mines. But not all coal deposits are economic to mine for export. In theory, the development of coal-fired power stations could create a business model to mine this coal.
