{"id":529357,"date":"2022-10-13T11:35:22","date_gmt":"2022-10-13T06:05:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=529357"},"modified":"2022-10-13T13:13:19","modified_gmt":"2022-10-13T07:43:19","slug":"living-in-darkness-poverty-and-pollution-in-oil-rich-congo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/living-in-darkness-poverty-and-pollution-in-oil-rich-congo\/","title":{"rendered":"Living in darkness: Poverty and pollution in oil-rich Congo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Behind their homes is an oil pipeline and above them are high-voltage cables suspended between pylons. A little further off is a flare tower, burning off excess gas 24 hours a day.<\/p>\n<p>Yet these potent symbols of Congo&#8217;s oil and gas bonanza mean little to the villagers who live in their shadow.<\/p>\n<p>When darkness falls, they have to fire up a generator or light lamps. None of their homes has mains electricity.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m 68 years old and I live in darkness,&#8221; said Florent Makosso, seated beneath a giant banana tree.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Behind their homes is an oil pipeline and above them are high-voltage cables suspended between pylons. A little further off is a flare tower, burning off excess gas 24 hours a day. Yet these potent symbols of Congo&#8217;s oil and gas bonanza mean little to the villagers who live in their shadow. When darkness falls, they have to fire up a generator or light lamps. None of their homes has mains electricity. &#8220;I&#8217;m 68 years old and I live in darkness,&#8221; said Florent Makosso, seated beneath a giant banana tree.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[146,130,177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-529357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-deccan-herald-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529357","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\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=529357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529357\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=529357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=529357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=529357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}