{"id":88019,"date":"2015-08-10T12:10:25","date_gmt":"2015-08-10T04:10:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/?p=88019"},"modified":"2015-08-10T12:10:25","modified_gmt":"2015-08-10T04:10:25","slug":"short-term-gain-with-long-term-pain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/?p=88019","title":{"rendered":"Short-term gain with long-term pain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ALUMINIUM is one of the most abundant elements in the earth crust which is normally extracted from bauxite via chemical means. In 1971, my former professor of geology at Universiti Malaya, used to lecture\/explain about bauxite mining activities in Pelepah Kanan, Johor, in the 1950s and 1960s. For reasons best known to the industry, the mines had since closed operation. Now, bauxite mining is back in business, not in Johor, but in Pahang and Terengganu. This time, it has seen a lot of objections from both locals and environmentalists alike because of the concerns related to health and land.<\/p>\n<p>To continue reading the rest of the article, click <a href=\"http:\/\/ift.tt\/1MX9LZG\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ALUMINIUM is one of the most abundant elements in the earth crust which is normally extracted from bauxite via chemical means. In 1971, my former&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[79],"nelio_content":{"isAutoShareEnabled":true,"autoShareEndMode":"never","automationSources":{"useCustomSentences":false,"customSentences":[]},"followers":[],"suggestedReferences":[],"efiUrl":"","efiAlt":"","highlights":[],"permalinkQueryArgs":[]},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88019"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=88019"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88019\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88020,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88019\/revisions\/88020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=88019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=88019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=88019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}