{"id":583839,"date":"2023-06-12T11:19:37","date_gmt":"2023-06-12T05:49:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=583839"},"modified":"2023-06-12T12:41:21","modified_gmt":"2023-06-12T07:11:21","slug":"plan-for-one-of-worlds-biggest-coal-mines-challenged-in-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/plan-for-one-of-worlds-biggest-coal-mines-challenged-in-india\/","title":{"rendered":"Plan for one of world\u2019s biggest coal mines challenged in India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Coal India Ltd. is holding talks with residents opposed to a mine expansion that would create one of the world\u2019s largest operations producing the fuel.<\/p>\n<p>Protests against plans for the Gevra site in the eastern province of Chhattisgarh threaten to complicate the company\u2019s ability to win approvals to expand annual capacity to 70 million tons. Output at that volume would see the site become the single biggest global source of the fossil fuel, according to Coal India.<\/p>\n<p>Rising power demand has pushed India to prioritize energy security and boost output of coal, which continues to account for about 70% of electricity generation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Coal India Ltd. is holding talks with residents opposed to a mine expansion that would create one of the world\u2019s largest operations producing the fuel. Protests against plans for the Gevra site in the eastern province of Chhattisgarh threaten to complicate the company\u2019s ability to win approvals to expand annual capacity to 70 million tons. Output at that volume would see the site become the single biggest global source of the fossil fuel, according to Coal India. Rising power demand has pushed India to prioritize energy security and boost output of coal, which continues to account for about 70% of [&hellip;]<\/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":[194,130,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-583839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coal-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583839","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=583839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583839\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=583839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=583839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=583839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}