{"id":240756,"date":"2025-08-26T05:40:32","date_gmt":"2025-08-26T09:40:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/?p=240756"},"modified":"2025-08-26T07:04:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T11:04:10","slug":"the-dirty-side-of-mining-falcondo-shuts-down-leaving-a-mess-behind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2025\/08\/26\/the-dirty-side-of-mining-falcondo-shuts-down-leaving-a-mess-behind\/","title":{"rendered":"The dirty side of mining: Falcondo shuts down leaving a mess behind"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img src=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/FALCONDO-Diario-Libre-1024x577.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-240793\" width=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/FALCONDO-Diario-Libre-1024x577.png 1024w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/FALCONDO-Diario-Libre-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/FALCONDO-Diario-Libre-768x433.png 768w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/FALCONDO-Diario-Libre-1536x866.png 1536w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/FALCONDO-Diario-Libre.png 1778w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 706px) 89vw, (max-width: 767px) 82vw, 740px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The Dominican government is maneuvering to reduce the damages of the shutdown of Falconbridge Dominicana (Falcondo), the mining firm that for decades has marked the livelihood of thousands in Monse\u00f1or Nouel province. Diario Libre looks into the case in the Superior Administrative Court (TSA) submitted on 22 July 2025 on violations of the 70-year old contract that has resulted in environmental damages for more than US$25 million.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>El Informe con Alicia Ortega looks into what is happening now that the mining firm has shut down and the impact in the central province.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Follow the story in Spanish:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.diariolibre.com\/actualidad\/justicia\/2025\/08\/26\/estado-busca-dejar-sin-efecto-contrato-con-falcondo\/3223928\">Diario Libre <\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=hI1yX8Qs6JA\">El Informe con Alicia Ortega <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>26 August 2025<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Dominican government is maneuvering to reduce the damages of the shutdown of Falconbridge Dominicana (Falcondo), the mining firm that for decades has marked the livelihood of thousands in Monse\u00f1or Nouel province. Diario Libre looks into the case in the Superior Administrative Court (TSA) submitted on 22 July 2025 on violations of the 70-year old &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2025\/08\/26\/the-dirty-side-of-mining-falcondo-shuts-down-leaving-a-mess-behind\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[337,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240756"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240756"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240756\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":240795,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240756\/revisions\/240795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}