{"id":58582,"date":"2023-09-21T19:38:56","date_gmt":"2023-09-21T10:38:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/sep\/21\/new-zealand-white-island-volcano-owners-deny-responsibility-visitor-safety-trial-ends"},"modified":"2023-09-21T19:38:56","modified_gmt":"2023-09-21T10:38:56","slug":"owners-of-new-zealand-volcano-that-fatally-erupted-deny-responsibility-for-visitor-safety","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=58582","title":{"rendered":"Owners of New Zealand volcano that fatally erupted deny responsibility for visitor safety"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>White Island\/Whakaari volcano exploded in 2019, prompting debate over natural hazard tourism<\/p>\n<p>The landowners of a New Zealand volcano that fatally erupted in 2019 have rejected arguments from the country\u2019s workplace safety regulator that they ultimately managed and controlled activities on the island and bore legal responsibility for whether visitors to it were safe.<\/p>\n<p>When <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jul\/11\/volcano-tourist-disaster-trial-hears-white-island-owners-put-profits-before-safety\">White Island\/Whakaari<\/a> exploded on 9 December 2019, 22 people were killed \u2013 17 of them Australians \u2013 with 25 others injured. It prompted renewed debate about controls for natural hazard tourism in New Zealand.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/sep\/21\/new-zealand-white-island-volcano-owners-deny-responsibility-visitor-safety-trial-ends\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>White Island\/Whakaari volcano exploded in 2019, prompting debate over natural hazard tourismThe landowners of a New Zealand volcano that fatally erupted in 2019 have rejected arguments from the country\u2019s workplace safety regulator that they ultimately &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":569,"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":[41,86,157,56,527,899,989,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-law","category-natural-disasters-and-extreme-weather","category-new-zealand","category-travel","category-volcanoes","category-white-island-volcano","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\/58582","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\/569"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58582"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58582\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58583,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58582\/revisions\/58583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}