{"id":130594,"date":"2022-12-11T17:32:52","date_gmt":"2022-12-12T00:32:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=130594"},"modified":"2022-12-11T17:32:52","modified_gmt":"2022-12-12T00:32:52","slug":"mud-ilmenite-sand-slinging-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2022\/12\/11\/mud-ilmenite-sand-slinging-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Mud ( ilmenite sand) slinging again"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><label class=\"components-checkbox-control__label\" for=\"inspector-checkbox-control-376\">Dr Sarath Obeysekera<\/label><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Now that two top-level people in Geological Survey and Marine Bureau ( GSMB ) are replaced by new people, the very first complaint published by the ex-chairman of the cement corporation, has landed on new bosses to handle<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We should seriously look into the possibility of value addition to our own mineral resources which has been ignored in the past\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Recently we saw a large amount of mineral sand in raw form has been shipped From Trinco .<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Sad ( sand) thing is there may a politician behind all these businesses\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If the claim is true we may have to reinvestigate and stop exporting of soil from \u00a0Aluwakkaru in Puttalam.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But we have to be mindful of the fact that Foreign investors \u00a0will think twice before they decide to invest when such issues are raised after spending money for a feasibility\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Why can\u2019t Iluka ( I call it \u0d89\u0dbd\u0dca\u0dbd\u0db1\u0dca \u0d9a\u0dcf) company carry out value addition in Sri Lanka and provide some benefits to this poor country?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Sarath Obeysekera Now that two top-level people in Geological Survey and Marine Bureau ( GSMB ) are replaced by new people, the very first complaint published by the ex-chairman of the cement corporation, has landed on new bosses to handle We should seriously look into the possibility of value addition to our own mineral [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[116],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-130594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dr-sarath-obeysekera"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130594\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}