{"id":97065,"date":"2020-10-17T10:33:17","date_gmt":"2020-10-17T02:33:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=97065"},"modified":"2020-10-17T10:33:19","modified_gmt":"2020-10-17T02:33:19","slug":"zambia-copper-firm-ordered-to-halt-operations-after-waste-spill-causes-flooding-polluting-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=97065","title":{"rendered":"Zambia: Copper firm ordered to halt operations after waste spill causes flooding, polluting river"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignwide\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanaweb.com\/GhanaHomePage\/africa\/Copper-firm-ordered-to-halt-operations-after-Zambia-waste-spill-1086277?gallery=1\"><img src=\"https:\/\/cdn.ghanaweb.com\/imagelib\/pics\/431\/43177248.295.jpg\" alt=\"The spillage occurred on Thursday after an embankment at the dam collapsed\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><strong><em>The spillage occurred on Thursday after an embankment at the dam collapsed<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> LUSAKA, Oct 17 (NNN-AGENCIES)\u00a0&#8212; Zambia\u2019s environmental authority halted operations at a copper-processing plant after a waste dam at the facility burst, flooding a stream that flows into a major river and destroying crops and fish.<br><br>The plant operators, Rongxin Investments Ltd., were also instructed to clean up the affected area and submit a restoration report, the Zambia Environmental Management Authority said in a statement.<br><br>The spillage occurred on Thursday after an embankment at the dam collapsed, \u201cdischarging huge volumes of tailings into the Luela Stream,\u201d ZEMA said. The stream flows into the Kafue River, the biggest tributary of the the country\u2019s main river, the Zambezi.<br><br>\u201cZEMA is working with other government agencies and departments to ensure that further regulatory action is taken,\u201d the agency said.<br><br>More than 200 meters of land along the stream was polluted and crops belonging to several small-scale farmers buried in the waste when the stream burst its banks, it said. &#8212; NNN-AGENCIES<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The spillage occurred on Thursday after an embankment at the dam collapsed LUSAKA, Oct 17 (NNN-AGENCIES)\u00a0&#8212; Zambia\u2019s environmental authority halted operations at a copper-processing plant after a waste dam at the facility burst, flooding a stream that flows into a major river and destroying crops and fish. The plant operators, Rongxin Investments Ltd., were also [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":97068,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[213],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97065"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=97065"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97065\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/97068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=97065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=97065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=97065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}