{"id":38142,"date":"2021-10-19T11:41:10","date_gmt":"2021-10-19T02:41:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/oct\/19\/environmentalists-argue-peter-thiels-luxury-nz-lodge-will-destroy-lake-landscape"},"modified":"2021-10-19T11:41:10","modified_gmt":"2021-10-19T02:41:10","slug":"environmentalists-argue-peter-thiels-luxury-nz-lodge-will-destroy-lake-landscape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=38142","title":{"rendered":"Environmentalists argue Peter Thiel\u2019s luxury NZ lodge will \u2018destroy\u2019 lake landscape"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Billionaire PayPal co-founder is planning a luxury home on 190-hectare property on shores of Lake Wanaka<\/p>\n<p>Billionaire Peter Thiel is facing opposition from New Zealand environmental groups over his plans to build a luxury lodge in W\u0101naka, an alpine town on the South Island.<\/p>\n<p>A company owned by Thiel had lodged a consent application for a sprawling lodge on his property, which would include a \u201cpod\u201d for the owner himself, water features and meditation space. The consent describes \u201ca series of stand-alone buildings, including a lodge for visitor accommodation for up to 24 guests, accommodation pod for the owner, together with associated lodge management buildings, infrastructure, landscape treatment, water features and meditation space\u201d. The earthworks required to build it would cover over 73,700m\u00b2 of land.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/oct\/19\/environmentalists-argue-peter-thiels-luxury-nz-lodge-will-destroy-lake-landscape\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Billionaire PayPal co-founder is planning a luxury home on 190-hectare property on shores of Lake WanakaBillionaire Peter Thiel is facing opposition from New Zealand environmental groups over his plans to build a luxury lodge in W\u0101naka, an alpine town &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2134,"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":[41,56,363,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-new-zealand","category-peter-thiel","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\/38142","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\/2134"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38142"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38143,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38142\/revisions\/38143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}