{"id":18107,"date":"2020-05-12T10:48:58","date_gmt":"2020-05-12T01:48:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/may\/12\/politics-and-porgera-why-papua-new-guinea-cancelled-the-lease-on-one-of-its-biggest-mines"},"modified":"2020-05-12T10:48:58","modified_gmt":"2020-05-12T01:48:58","slug":"politics-and-porgera-why-papua-new-guinea-cancelled-the-lease-on-one-of-its-biggest-mines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=18107","title":{"rendered":"Politics and Porgera: why Papua New Guinea cancelled the lease on one of its biggest mines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The announcement not to renew the goldmine lease is fraught but part of an attempt to \u2018take back PNG\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Late in April, in the middle of a global pandemic and slow-boiling domestic economic crisis, the government of Papua New Guinea made the surprising announcement not to extend the mining lease on a goldmine that contributes roughly 10% of the country\u2019s total exports.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement not to renew the special mining lease for the Porgera mine was a shock, not least to the mine\u2019s operator, Barrick Gold, and their joint venture partner Zijin Mining. <\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/may\/12\/politics-and-porgera-why-papua-new-guinea-cancelled-the-lease-on-one-of-its-biggest-mines\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The announcement not to renew the goldmine lease is fraught but part of an attempt to \u2018take back PNG\u2019Late in April, in the middle of a global pandemic and slow-boiling domestic economic crisis, the government of Papua New Guinea made the surprising ann&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1303,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,65,762,730,874,267,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-environment","category-gold","category-mining","category-pacific-islands","category-papua-new-guinea","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1303"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18107"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18107\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18108,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18107\/revisions\/18108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}