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As mining companies scour Zambia’s Copperbelt for metals used in sustainable energy, locals are dealing with unchecked pollution and contamination.<\/em><\/p>\n Along rivers and farmland in\u00a0Zambia’s<\/a>\u00a0Copperbelt, communities are living with the environmental and social consequences of renewed\u00a0mining activity.\u00a0<\/a>Global demand for copper used in electric vehicles and\u00a0renewable energy technologies<\/a>\u00a0has seen\u00a0business surge\u00a0in Zambian mining towns like Kitwe, Luanshya, Mufulira and Chingola.<\/p>\n Concerns over…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> As mining companies scour Zambia’s Copperbelt for metals used in sustainable energy, locals are dealing with unchecked pollution and contamination. Along rivers and farmland in\u00a0Zambia’s\u00a0Copperbelt, communities are living with the environmental and social consequences of renewed\u00a0mining activity.\u00a0Global demand for copper used in electric vehicles and\u00a0renewable energy technologies\u00a0has seen\u00a0business surge\u00a0in Zambian mining towns like Kitwe, Luanshya, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":225032,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00680836:3d750ca02f1cc00bf22b006d43d60dda:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[825],"tags":[258,256,17391,16733,6477,257,9105,8689,254,881,9005],"class_list":["post-225031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zambia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-boom","tag-copperbelt","tag-mining","tag-news","tag-pay","tag-price","tag-south-africa-today","tag-zambia-news","tag-zambians"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00680836:3d750ca02f1cc00bf22b006d43d60dda:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225031","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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225031\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/225032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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