{"id":29744,"date":"2021-03-14T12:22:38","date_gmt":"2021-03-14T03:22:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/mar\/14\/entire-villages-would-be-wiped-out-if-natural-disaster-hit-dam-on-png-mine-critics-say"},"modified":"2021-03-14T12:22:38","modified_gmt":"2021-03-14T03:22:38","slug":"entire-villages-would-be-wiped-out-if-natural-disaster-hit-dam-on-png-mine-critics-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=29744","title":{"rendered":"Entire villages would be wiped out if natural disaster hit dam on PNG mine, critics say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018Rocks under where the dam will be built is not safe \u2026 If there is a fault in the structure, the dam will give way,\u2019 says West Sepik official<\/p>\n<p>A proposed dam to hold billions of tonnes of mine waste near the head of Papua New Guinea\u2019s longest river is a potential environmental disaster that could wipe out entire villages if there was a natural disaster, government officials, environmental advocacy groups and villagers living along the river say.<\/p>\n<p>The Frieda River gold and copper mine \u2013 slated for development by Chinese state-owned, Australian-based miner PanAust for northern New Guinea island \u2013 would be the largest mine in PNG\u2019s history, and one of the biggest in the world.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/mar\/14\/entire-villages-would-be-wiped-out-if-natural-disaster-hit-dam-on-png-mine-critics-say\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018Rocks under where the dam will be built is not safe \u2026 If there is a fault in the structure, the dam will give way,\u2019 says West Sepik officialA proposed dam to hold billions of tonnes of mine waste near the head of Papua New Guinea\u2019s longest river is a &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1473,"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":[41,65,730,874,267,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-environment","category-mining","category-pacific-islands","category-papua-new-guinea","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29744","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\/1473"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29744"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29744\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29745,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29744\/revisions\/29745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}