{"id":207466,"date":"2021-06-17T19:49:22","date_gmt":"2021-06-17T19:49:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.michaelwest.com.au\/?p=281087"},"modified":"2021-06-17T19:49:22","modified_gmt":"2021-06-17T19:49:22","slug":"kalbars-exotic-minerals-mine-a-toxic-risk-to-victorias-food-bowl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/06\/17\/kalbars-exotic-minerals-mine-a-toxic-risk-to-victorias-food-bowl\/","title":{"rendered":"Kalbar\u2019s exotic minerals mine a toxic risk to Victoria\u2019s food bowl"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img width=\"800\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/www.michaelwest.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/broccoli-fields.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium wp-post-image\" alt=\"The Lindenow Valley produces the salad greens and vegetables - broccoli, green beans, cauliflower, celery beetroot, cabbage and carrots - that help feed the nation. The Valley\u2019s horticultural industry produces nearly one third of the state\u2019s fresh vegetables; employs up to 2000 people at peak times; is worth more than $150 million a year to the local economy.\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"margin-bottom: 15px;\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.michaelwest.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/broccoli-fields.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.michaelwest.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/broccoli-fields-480x300.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) 800px, 100vw\" \/><\/div>A hearing into the Environment Effects Statement for Kalbar's mineral sands project on rich Victorian farmland has been told about competition for billions of litres of water, high levels of uranium, untested technologies and a strange backflip by the project's \"independent experts\". Elizabeth Minter investigates.\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.michaelwest.com.au\/kalbars-exotic-minerals-mine-a-toxic-risk-to-victorias-food-bowl\/\">Michael West<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A hearing into the Environment Effects Statement for Kalbar&#8217;s mineral sands project on rich Victorian farmland has been told about competition for billions of litres of water, high levels of uranium, untested technologies and a strange backflip by the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":621,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1875],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207466"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/621"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207466"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207466\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":213428,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207466\/revisions\/213428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}