{"id":259696,"date":"2019-02-19T05:13:36","date_gmt":"2019-02-19T05:13:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=259696"},"modified":"2019-02-19T05:13:36","modified_gmt":"2019-02-19T05:13:36","slug":"maharashtra-to-move-planned-ratnagiri-refinery-after-farmers-protest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/maharashtra-to-move-planned-ratnagiri-refinery-after-farmers-protest\/","title":{"rendered":"Maharashtra to move planned Ratnagiri refinery after farmers protest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MUMBAI: Opposition from farmers has prompted Maharashtra to move the location for what would be the country&#8217;s biggest oil refinery, Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis said.<\/p>\n<p>Stare-run oil companies and Saudi Aramco have teamed up to build the $44 billion refinery, which is aimed at giving India steady fuel supplies while meeting Saudi Arabia&#8217;s need to secure regular buyers for its oil.<\/p>\n<p>But thousands of farmers are refusing to surrender land, fearing it could damage a region famed for its Alphonso mangoes, vast cashew plantations and fishing hamlets that boast bountiful catches of seafood.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MUMBAI: Opposition from farmers has prompted Maharashtra to move the location for what would be the country&#8217;s biggest oil refinery, Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis said. Stare-run oil companies and Saudi Aramco have teamed up to build the $44 billion refinery, which is aimed at giving India steady fuel supplies while meeting Saudi Arabia&#8217;s need to secure regular buyers for its oil. But thousands of farmers are refusing to surrender land, fearing it could damage a region famed for its Alphonso mangoes, vast cashew plantations and fishing hamlets that boast bountiful catches of seafood.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[139,130,187],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-259696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-live-mint","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-live-mint"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=259696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259696\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}