{"id":358610,"date":"2020-06-22T11:09:25","date_gmt":"2020-06-22T05:39:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=358610"},"modified":"2020-06-22T11:46:55","modified_gmt":"2020-06-22T06:16:55","slug":"assam-pollution-control-board-tells-oil-to-shutter-baghjan-ops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/assam-pollution-control-board-tells-oil-to-shutter-baghjan-ops\/","title":{"rendered":"Assam pollution control board tells OIL to shutter Baghjan ops"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Assam\u2019s pollution watchdog has told Oil India Ltd (OIL) to shut down production and drilling at all installations in Upper Assam\u2019s Baghjan oilfield after discovering that the company had allegedly started operations \u201cwithout obtaining prior consent to establish\/consent to operate\u201d from it. OIL\u2019s set-up in Baghjan, where a well has been burning for days after a blowout, is said to have been functioning since 2003. <\/p>\n<p>The closure notice, sent by Pollution Control Board, Assam (PBCA) to the chief executive of OIL, also cited a number of alleged environmental transgressions by the PSU.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Assam\u2019s pollution watchdog has told Oil India Ltd (OIL) to shut down production and drilling at all installations in Upper Assam\u2019s Baghjan oilfield after discovering that the company had allegedly started operations \u201cwithout obtaining prior consent to establish\/consent to operate\u201d from it. OIL\u2019s set-up in Baghjan, where a well has been burning for days after a blowout, is said to have been functioning since 2003. The closure notice, sent by Pollution Control Board, Assam (PBCA) to the chief executive of OIL, also cited a number of alleged environmental transgressions by the PSU.<\/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-358610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358610","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=358610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358610\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=358610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=358610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=358610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}