{"id":1789,"date":"2014-11-19T06:50:21","date_gmt":"2014-11-19T11:50:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=1789"},"modified":"2014-11-19T06:50:21","modified_gmt":"2014-11-19T11:50:21","slug":"conservationists-slam-plans-to-dump-mining-waste-into-norwegian-fjord-environment-the-guardian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=1789","title":{"rendered":"Conservationists slam plans to dump mining waste into Norwegian fjord | Environment | The Guardian"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2014\/nov\/19\/conservationists-slam-plans-to-dump-mining-waste-into-norwegian-fjord\">Conservationists slam plans to dump mining waste into Norwegian fjord | Environment | The Guardian<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1rem 0px;\">Norway\u2019s image as one of the world\u2019s cleanest, greenest countries with some of the finest unspoilt scenery will be tarnished if the government allows a giant titanium mining company to dump hundreds of millions of tonnes of waste directly into a fjord, conservationists warn.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1rem 0px;\"><a class=\" u-underline\" style=\"background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; color: #005689; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none !important; border-bottom-width: 0.0625rem; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: #dcdcdc; -webkit-transition-property: border-color; -webkit-transition-duration: 0.15s; -webkit-transition-timing-function: ease-out; -webkit-transition-delay: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nordicmining.com\/\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" data-component=\"in-body-link\">Nordic Mining<\/a>\u00a0has applied to dump nearly 6m tonnes of tailings a year for 50 years into F\u00f8rde Fjord, one of the country\u2019s most important spawning grounds for cod and salmon, and a site where whales and porpoises congregate. The government is expected to give a decision in the next few days.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1rem 0px;\">According to\u00a0<a class=\" u-underline\" style=\"background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; color: #005689; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none !important; border-bottom-width: 0.0625rem; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: #dcdcdc; -webkit-transition-property: border-color; -webkit-transition-duration: 0.15s; -webkit-transition-timing-function: ease-out; -webkit-transition-delay: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nordicmining.com\/nyhetsarkiv-oaax\/category292.html\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" data-component=\"in-body-link\">company statements,<\/a>\u00a0the plan is to remove around 250m tonnes of minerals from the nearby Engeb\u00f8 mountain. The annual waste would include 1,200 tonnes of sulphuric acid, 1,000 tonnes of sodium, 1,000 tonnes of phosphoric acid, 360 tonnes of carbonic acid and 90 tonnes of acrylamide as well as other acids, solvents and heavy metals including copper, nickel, lead, zinc and mercury.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1rem 0px;\">But it contends that this will have negligible ecological effects even over 50 years.\u00a0<a class=\" u-underline\" style=\"background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; color: #005689; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none !important; border-bottom-width: 0.0625rem; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: #dcdcdc; -webkit-transition-property: border-color; -webkit-transition-duration: 0.15s; -webkit-transition-timing-function: ease-out; -webkit-transition-delay: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nordicmining.com\/nyhetsarkiv-oaax-vis-nyhet\/category293.html?itemId=1749086\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" data-component=\"in-body-link\">In a letter to the environment ministry last week<\/a>\u00a0it argues that waste deposits will cover no more than 13% of the flat fjord bottom which is less than 200 meters deep.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1rem 0px;\">&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Conservationists slam plans to dump mining waste into Norwegian fjord | Environment | The Guardian. Norway\u2019s image as one of the world\u2019s cleanest, greenest countries with some of the finest unspoilt scenery will be tarnished if the government allows a giant titanium mining company to dump hundreds of millions of tonnes of waste directly into [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[271,1242,1241,1215],"class_list":["post-1789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-environment-2","tag-mining-waste","tag-norway","tag-toxins"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1789"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1789\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1790,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1789\/revisions\/1790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}