{"id":589297,"date":"2023-07-06T09:39:01","date_gmt":"2023-07-06T04:09:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=589297"},"modified":"2023-07-06T10:18:12","modified_gmt":"2023-07-06T04:48:12","slug":"troubled-power-plant-leaves-jordan-in-debt-to-china-raises-concerns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/troubled-power-plant-leaves-jordan-in-debt-to-china-raises-concerns\/","title":{"rendered":"Troubled power plant leaves Jordan in debt to China, raises concerns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jordan&#8217;s Attarat power plant was envisioned as a landmark project promising to provide the desert kingdom with a major source of energy while solidifying its relations with China. <\/p>\n<p>But weeks after its official opening, the site, a sea of black, crumbly rock in the barren desert south of Jordan&#8217;s capital, is instead a source of heated controversy. Deals surrounding the plant put Jordan on the hook for billions of dollars in debt to China all for a plant that is no longer needed for its energy, because of other agreements made since the project&#8217;s conception.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jordan&#8217;s Attarat power plant was envisioned as a landmark project promising to provide the desert kingdom with a major source of energy while solidifying its relations with China. But weeks after its official opening, the site, a sea of black, crumbly rock in the barren desert south of Jordan&#8217;s capital, is instead a source of heated controversy. Deals surrounding the plant put Jordan on the hook for billions of dollars in debt to China all for a plant that is no longer needed for its energy, because of other agreements made since the project&#8217;s conception.<\/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":[135,130,232],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-589297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-power-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589297","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=589297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589297\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=589297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=589297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=589297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}