{"id":9018,"date":"2019-09-16T03:00:37","date_gmt":"2019-09-15T18:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/sep\/16\/collapse-of-png-deep-sea-mining-venture-sparks-calls-for-moratorium"},"modified":"2019-09-16T03:00:37","modified_gmt":"2019-09-15T18:00:37","slug":"collapse-of-png-deep-sea-mining-venture-sparks-calls-for-moratorium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=9018","title":{"rendered":"Collapse of PNG deep-sea mining venture sparks calls for moratorium"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Papua New Guinea out of pocket $157m from failed attempt at mining material from deep-sea vents as opponents point to environmental risk<\/p>\n<p>The \u201ctotal failure\u201d of PNG\u2019s controversial deep sea mining project Solwara 1 has spurred calls for a Pacific-wide moratorium on seabed mining for a decade.<\/p>\n<p>The company behind Solwara 1, Nautilus, has gone into administration, with major creditors seeking a restructure to recoup hundreds of millions sunk into the controversial project.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/sep\/16\/collapse-of-png-deep-sea-mining-venture-sparks-calls-for-moratorium\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Papua New Guinea out of pocket $157m from failed attempt at mining material from deep-sea vents as opponents point to environmental riskThe \u201ctotal failure\u201d of PNG\u2019s controversial deep sea mining project Solwara 1 has spurred calls for a Pacific-wide mo&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":371,"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":[41,65,762,730,467,267],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-environment","category-gold","category-mining","category-oceans","category-papua-new-guinea"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9018","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\/371"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9018"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9018\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9019,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9018\/revisions\/9019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}