Although a World Bank inspection panel has criticized on environmental and other grounds a mammoth coal-fired powerplant under construction in South Africa, the project will proceed and the bank will continue to fund it—but with bank and government officials keeping a close eye on the project’s environmental impact. As work advances, there will be additional World Bank and South Africa government monitoring of the project’s effects on local water supply, air quality and public infrastructure through 2022, seven years beyond its scheduled completion date.