{"id":159468,"date":"2018-04-10T02:34:59","date_gmt":"2018-04-10T06:34:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=159468"},"modified":"2018-04-10T02:34:59","modified_gmt":"2018-04-10T06:34:59","slug":"mining-companies-to-lose-license-if-they-dont-plant-trees-duterte-warns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/04\/10\/mining-companies-to-lose-license-if-they-dont-plant-trees-duterte-warns\/","title":{"rendered":"Mining companies to lose license if they don\u2019t plant trees, Duterte warns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">President Rodrigo Duterte warned mining companies that if they want to continue doing business in the country, they must conduct reforestation or bid goodbye to their license.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo mining companies, I\u2019m going to give you six months. I do not want to see bald (areas of land). In areas where you are operating, I want trees as tall as me by six months. If the tree you left is not in the land that you destroyed, then consider your permit revoked,\u201d Duterte said <span>on Monday<\/span> before he left for China for the Boao Forum.<\/p>\n<p>The president added that he is thinking of implementing a ban on open-pit mining in 2019.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMaybe next year, maybe, I will ban open-pit mining. Sleep on it,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>(DAILY NEWS ROUND UP FOR 04\/ 9 \/18)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Rodrigo Duterte warned mining companies that if they want to continue doing business in the country, they must conduct &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":114184,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-159468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-uncategorized","mauthors-ro-angelica-equio","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=159468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159468\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/114184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}