{"id":1259,"date":"2023-06-30T13:22:23","date_gmt":"2023-06-30T12:22:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/?p=1259"},"modified":"2023-06-30T13:22:23","modified_gmt":"2023-06-30T12:22:23","slug":"norways-deep-sea-mining-plans-sparks-outrage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/?p=1259","title":{"rendered":"Norway&#8217;s deep sea mining plans sparks outrage"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Manganese-nodules-Wikipedia.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Manganese-nodules-Wikipedia.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1261\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Manganese-nodules-Wikipedia.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Manganese-nodules-Wikipedia-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Manganese-nodules-Wikipedia-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Manganese nodules on the sea bed. Photo: Wikipedia<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The Norwegian government last week announced it wants to open up Norway\u2019s continental shelf for deep sea mining. Minerals found there are needed for the green transition, it argues. But environmentalists and others are appalled by the idea of the commercial exploration of one of the planet\u2019s last great unknown wildernesses. This is my report for<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/inside-europe-29-june-2023\/audio-66072047\"> Inside Europe on Deutsche Welle<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/SHORTER-BEVANGER-Norway-deep-sea-mining.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Norwegian government last week announced it wants to open up Norway\u2019s continental shelf for deep sea mining. Minerals found there are needed for the green transition, it argues. But environmentalists and others are appalled by the idea of the commercial exploration of one of the planet\u2019s last great unknown wildernesses. This is my report [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1261,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1259"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1259\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1262,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1259\/revisions\/1262"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}