{"id":354514,"date":"2020-05-30T11:41:22","date_gmt":"2020-05-30T06:11:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=354514"},"modified":"2020-05-30T11:58:29","modified_gmt":"2020-05-30T06:28:29","slug":"oil-well-blowout-near-assam-national-park-yet-to-be-controlled-environmentalists-fear-adverse-impact","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/oil-well-blowout-near-assam-national-park-yet-to-be-controlled-environmentalists-fear-adverse-impact\/","title":{"rendered":"Oil well blowout near Assam national park yet to be controlled; environmentalists fear adverse impact"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More than 60 hours after an oil well \u2014 owned by Oil India Limited (OIL) in Upper Assam \u2014 experienced a blowout, authorities are yet to bring the leak under control. On Wednesday morning, a blowout \u2014 or an uncontrolled release of natural gas \u2014 was reported at the Baghjan Oilfield of OIL in Tinsukia district. The area is located in the close vicinity of the Dibru-Saikhowa National Park.<\/p>\n<p>As the blowout continued till Friday evening, Assam Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal discussed the situation with both Dharmendra Pradhan, Minister of Petroleum &amp; Natural Gas and Minister of Steel, and Chandra Mishra CMD of OIL, asking the latter to ensure that the leakage is stopped at the earliest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than 60 hours after an oil well \u2014 owned by Oil India Limited (OIL) in Upper Assam \u2014 experienced a blowout, authorities are yet to bring the leak under control. On Wednesday morning, a blowout \u2014 or an uncontrolled release of natural gas \u2014 was reported at the Baghjan Oilfield of OIL in Tinsukia district. The area is located in the close vicinity of the Dibru-Saikhowa National Park. As the blowout continued till Friday evening, Assam Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal discussed the situation with both Dharmendra Pradhan, Minister of Petroleum &amp; Natural Gas and Minister of Steel, and Chandra [&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-354514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354514","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=354514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354514\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=354514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=354514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=354514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}