{"id":355391,"date":"2020-06-03T12:57:55","date_gmt":"2020-06-03T07:27:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=355391"},"modified":"2020-06-03T12:57:55","modified_gmt":"2020-06-03T07:27:55","slug":"assam-gas-well-blowout-puts-biodiversity-at-risk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/assam-gas-well-blowout-puts-biodiversity-at-risk\/","title":{"rendered":"Assam gas well blowout puts biodiversity at risk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The blowout of an Oil India Limited (OIL) gas well in Assam\u2019s Tinsukia district last week is causing extensive damage to biodiversity and wildlife the region &#8212; including the endangered hoolock gibbons and Gangetic dolphins &#8212; according to several residents, activists and experts.<\/p>\n<p>Baghjan, where the gas well blowout occurred on May 27 is close to the Dibru Saikhowa National Park, the Maguri-Motapung wetlands, and the forest villages of Barekuri which are habitat to the hoolock gibbon.<\/p>\n<p>Uncontrollable gas flow is continuing from the gas well, according a press statement issued by Oil India Limited on Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The blowout of an Oil India Limited (OIL) gas well in Assam\u2019s Tinsukia district last week is causing extensive damage to biodiversity and wildlife the region &#8212; including the endangered hoolock gibbons and Gangetic dolphins &#8212; according to several residents, activists and experts. Baghjan, where the gas well blowout occurred on May 27 is close to the Dibru Saikhowa National Park, the Maguri-Motapung wetlands, and the forest villages of Barekuri which are habitat to the hoolock gibbon. Uncontrollable gas flow is continuing from the gas well, according a press statement issued by Oil India Limited on Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[141,130,183],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-355391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hindustantimes","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-hindustantimes"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355391","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\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=355391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355391\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=355391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=355391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=355391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}