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 by AFP Staff Writers Wellington (AFP) July 7, 2022
China is insisting one of the main wastewater pipes beneath the New Zealand capital Wellington be diverted to ease security concerns for its new embassy, a city official confirmed Thursday. The pipe is large enough for people to walk through and runs under a block of land where the new Chinese embassy is to be built. "Security is the issue," Wellington city council spokesman Richard MacLean told AFP. "It's a big enough pipe for people to move around in." The council has no objections to the pipe being moved but has insisted the work be done at China's expense. "If they want it shifted, they will have to organise it and pay for it and we will oversee the project. That's our bottom line," MacLean said. "It will be a big project to shift that pipe." The Chinese ambassador to New Zealand, Wang Xiaolong, told The Dominion Post newspaper that the embassy "was working with the council" on the pipes so the building could proceed. The Chinese embassy was not immediately able to provide a comment. China has been targeted by protesters over a number of issues in recent years including its human rights record, the political crackdown in Hong Kong, the treatment of Uyghurs and other Muslim minorities, and heightened tensions with Taiwan. The Wellington City Council approved resource consent for the new embassy four years ago but there has been no work done on the site.
Researchers uncover life's power generators in the Earth's oldest groundwaters Toronto, Canada (SPX) Jul 06, 2022 An international team of researchers have discovered 1.2-billion-year-old groundwater deep in a gold- and uranium-producing mine in Moab Khotsong, South Africa, shedding more light on how life is sustained below the Earth's surface and how it may thrive on other planets. "For the first time, we have insight into how energy stored deep in the Earth's subsurface can be released and distributed more broadly through its crust over time," says Oliver Warr, research associate in the Department of Earth Scien ... read more
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