{"id":357313,"date":"2020-06-15T10:55:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-15T05:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=357313"},"modified":"2020-06-15T11:18:33","modified_gmt":"2020-06-15T05:48:33","slug":"assam-gas-leak-cm-sonowal-and-union-minister-pradhan-to-visit-site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/assam-gas-leak-cm-sonowal-and-union-minister-pradhan-to-visit-site\/","title":{"rendered":"Assam gas leak: CM Sonowal and Union Minister Pradhan to visit site"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following the blowout and fire at an Oil India Ltd (OIL) well in Upper Assam, Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal and Union Petroleum Minister Dharmendra Pradhan Saturday announced that they would jointly visit to the site in Tinsukia district for a \u201cground understanding of the situation\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The visit was announced after Pradhan met Sonowal in Guwahati on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>On June 9, the Baghjan 5 well\u2014close to the ecologically-sensitive Dibru-Saikhowa National Park and Maguri-Motapung wetland\u2014 caught fire, 14 days after it had reported a blowout, or an uncontrolled release of natural gas. The incident led to the death of two firefighters from OIL, while displacing thousands and causing extensive damage to the surrounding ecosystem.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following the blowout and fire at an Oil India Ltd (OIL) well in Upper Assam, Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal and Union Petroleum Minister Dharmendra Pradhan Saturday announced that they would jointly visit to the site in Tinsukia district for a \u201cground understanding of the situation\u201d. The visit was announced after Pradhan met Sonowal in Guwahati on Saturday. On June 9, the Baghjan 5 well\u2014close to the ecologically-sensitive Dibru-Saikhowa National Park and Maguri-Motapung wetland\u2014 caught fire, 14 days after it had reported a blowout, or an uncontrolled release of natural gas. The incident led to the death of two firefighters from [&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-357313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357313","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=357313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357313\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=357313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=357313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=357313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}