Development banks seek to revive world’s biggest power project
The planned Grand Inga hydropower complex in the DRC has been stalled for decades.
Options for assistance to mining companies struggling with low commodity prices could include deferrals on payment of power bills and delayed payments on mineral taxes, Bennett said in an interview. There are real potential consequences if the province can’t offer any help.
“There’s urgency to this,” Bennett said. “If we don’t find something to do that will help in early January, then by mid-January I think you’re going to see some mining companies go down.