{"id":216325,"date":"2025-12-11T02:49:48","date_gmt":"2025-12-11T00:49:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-questions-mount-palm-oil-factory-dedicated-by-epa-boss-remains-nonfunctional\/"},"modified":"2025-12-11T02:49:48","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T00:49:48","slug":"liberia-questions-mount-palm-oil-factory-dedicated-by-epa-boss-remains-nonfunctional","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-questions-mount-palm-oil-factory-dedicated-by-epa-boss-remains-nonfunctional\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberia: Questions Mount &#8211; -Palm Oil Factory dedicated by EPA boss remains nonfunctional."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">A project once hailed as a symbol of agricultural transformation in Bong County has now become the center of growing frustration and unanswered questions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"39\">The Bio-Thermal Palm Oil Factory, dedicated in 2023 by the Executive Director of the Liberia Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Dr. Emmanuel K. Urey Yarkpawolo, has reportedly been abandoned, leaving residents of Tobacco Farm deeply disappointed after years of anticipation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"57\">The facility, presented to the community during the peak of the 2023&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202512100387.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Liberia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/liberia\/\">Liberia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A project once hailed as a symbol of agricultural transformation in Bong County has now become the center of growing frustration and unanswered questions. The Bio-Thermal Palm Oil Factory, dedicated in 2023 by the Executive Director of the Liberia Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Dr. Emmanuel K. Urey Yarkpawolo, has reportedly been abandoned, leaving residents of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":216326,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1086],"tags":[258,256,6962,10976,18937,7329,4712,1107,16850,257,53099,4221,6927,5152,7602,254],"class_list":["post-216325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liberia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-boss","tag-dedicated","tag-epa","tag-factory","tag-liberia","tag-liberia-news","tag-mount","tag-news","tag-nonfunctional","tag-oil","tag-palm","tag-questions","tag-remains","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216325\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/216326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}