{"id":302,"date":"2009-05-11T08:08:52","date_gmt":"2009-05-11T15:08:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lexiconic.net\/wheatfromthechaff\/05-5\/wheat-from-the-chaff-the-mining-industry-gets-its-comeuppance"},"modified":"2011-07-14T10:32:24","modified_gmt":"2011-07-14T17:32:24","slug":"wheat-from-the-chaff-the-mining-industry-gets-its-comeuppance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lexiconic.net\/wheatfromthechaff\/archives\/302","title":{"rendered":"The Mining Industry Gets Its Comeuppance"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"wp_fb_like_button\" style=\"margin:5px 0;float:none;height:30px;\"><script src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\"><\/script><fb:like href=\"http:\/\/lexiconic.net\/wheatfromthechaff\/archives\/302\" send=\"false\" layout=\"standard\" width=\"450\" show_faces=\"false\" font=\"arial\" action=\"recommend\" colorscheme=\"light\"><\/fb:like><\/div><div id=\"content\">\n<div class=\"blog\"><!-- back and forward --><\/p>\n<div class=\"blogbody\">\n<p><span>One of the most ideologically strident industries in Canada, and certainly its whiniest, is the mining industry. It recently suffered a well-deserved loss in Canada&#8217;s Federal Court, which ordered the industry, and its pals in the federal government, to fully disclose the industry&#8217;s pollution output. Canada&#8217;s mining industry did not have to report &#8220;the pollutants present in the tailings and waste rock&#8221; in the national survey on pollution (the NPRI). Amazingly, the federal government fought the full disclosure, apparently at the behest of its mining friends. Read the full story at cbc.ca: <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: small;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/canada\/story\/2009\/04\/24\/court-mining-pollution865.html\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/canada\/story\/2009\/04\/24\/court-mining-pollution865.html<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"posted\">Posted by <a href=\"mailto:cwelch@lexiconic.net\">Colin Welch<\/a> at 8:45 PM<br \/>\n<em>Edited on: Saturday, May 16, 2009 2:11 PM<\/em>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the most ideologically strident industries in Canada, and certainly its whiniest, is the mining industry. It recently suffered a well-deserved loss in Canada&#8217;s Federal Court, which ordered the industry, and its pals in the federal government, to fully disclose the industry&#8217;s pollution output. Canada&#8217;s mining industry did not have to report &#8220;the pollutants [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-canadian-politics","category-the-good-the-bad-and-the-stupid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lexiconic.net\/wheatfromthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lexiconic.net\/wheatfromthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lexiconic.net\/wheatfromthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lexiconic.net\/wheatfromthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lexiconic.net\/wheatfromthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=302"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/lexiconic.net\/wheatfromthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":756,"href":"http:\/\/lexiconic.net\/wheatfromthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302\/revisions\/756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lexiconic.net\/wheatfromthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lexiconic.net\/wheatfromthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lexiconic.net\/wheatfromthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}