{"id":262900,"date":"2019-03-07T06:12:17","date_gmt":"2019-03-07T06:12:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=262900"},"modified":"2019-03-07T06:29:18","modified_gmt":"2019-03-07T06:29:18","slug":"oil-spills-when-will-we-ever-learn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/oil-spills-when-will-we-ever-learn\/","title":{"rendered":"Oil spills: When will we ever learn?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Solomon Islands. Just a few weeks ago, a bulk carrier with 700 tonnes of oil in its belly ran aground on Kongobainiu reef in the tiny South Pacific country after it was caught in Cyclone Oma. The cargo ship, MV Solomons Trader, has a Hong Kong registration and is owned by an Indonesian mining company. The spill from the ship is now threatening life, work and environment at an environmentally sensitive and culturally important geography which is home to a protected Unesco World Heritage Site.<\/p>\n<p>Oh dear! That\u2019s terrible.<\/p>\n<p>Reports say the ship was carrying bauxite meant for producing aluminium when it met with the accident on Solomon Islands\u2019 Rennell Island on February 5, gradually coughing out oil into the waters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Solomon Islands. Just a few weeks ago, a bulk carrier with 700 tonnes of oil in its belly ran aground on Kongobainiu reef in the tiny South Pacific country after it was caught in Cyclone Oma. The cargo ship, MV Solomons Trader, has a Hong Kong registration and is owned by an Indonesian mining company. The spill from the ship is now threatening life, work and environment at an environmentally sensitive and culturally important geography which is home to a protected Unesco World Heritage Site. Oh dear! That\u2019s terrible. Reports say the ship was carrying bauxite meant for producing aluminium [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-262900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=262900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262900\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=262900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=262900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}