{"id":35108,"date":"2013-04-18T21:30:54","date_gmt":"2013-04-19T04:30:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=35108"},"modified":"2013-04-18T21:30:54","modified_gmt":"2013-04-19T04:30:54","slug":"guardian-rio-tinto-accused-of-environmental-and-human-rights-breaches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2013\/04\/18\/guardian-rio-tinto-accused-of-environmental-and-human-rights-breaches\/","title":{"rendered":"Guardian: Rio Tinto accused of environmental and human rights breaches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>rotesters from around the world attacked mining company Rio Tinto for a string for alleged environmental and human rights breaches during a fiery meeting with shareholders in London on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Native Mongolian herders claimed that a $5bn (\u00a33.3bn) expansion of the company&#8217;s Oyu Tolgoi copper and gold mine in the Gobi desert threatened the fresh water supply of hundreds of nomadic people and the area&#8217;s unique ecology.<\/p>\n<p>Sukhgerel Dugersuren, executive director of Mongolian civil society organisation Oyu Tolgoi Watch, said: &#8220;Water is a life and death resource. Rio Tinto is diverting water without the consent of the local community or the government.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is already evident that not only livestock but local communities are losing access to adequate water supply. Pasture &#8230; [and] water resources are being taken from us and fenced in by the mine.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>She claimed that a tailings pond used to collect waste material from the mine had leaked and told Rio&#8217;s board that the local community demanded assurances that &#8220;there isn&#8217;t going to be a catastrophe in the region&#8221;.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/business\/2013\/apr\/18\/rio-tinto-environmental-human-rights-breaches\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\nClick here for the full story.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>rotesters from around the world attacked mining company Rio Tinto for a string for alleged environmental and human rights breaches during a fiery meeting with shareholders in London on Thursday. Native Mongolian herders claimed that a $5bn (\u00a33.3bn) expansion of the company&#8217;s Oyu Tolgoi copper and gold mine in the Gobi desert threatened the fresh [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-important-news-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35108"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35108\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35109,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35108\/revisions\/35109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}