{"id":382570,"date":"2020-11-05T12:16:31","date_gmt":"2020-11-05T06:46:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=382570"},"modified":"2020-11-05T12:54:36","modified_gmt":"2020-11-05T07:24:36","slug":"baghjan-blowout%e2%80%89oil-india-limited-operated-well-without-mandatory-clearances-says-ngt-panel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/baghjan-blowout%e2%80%89oil-india-limited-operated-well-without-mandatory-clearances-says-ngt-panel\/","title":{"rendered":"Baghjan blowout:\u2009Oil India Limited operated well without mandatory clearances, says NGT panel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Oil India Limited (OIL) was operating the natural gas well at Assam\u2019s Baghjan without required permissions when the uncontrolled escape of oil and gas, or blowout, began there in May, a National Green Tribunal (NGT) panel has said. The panel has recommended legal action against the public sector company and its officials over the violations that led to the blowout.<\/p>\n<p>The well later caught fire in June that continues to rage five months on and has claimed three lives and destroyed nearby houses.<\/p>\n<p>The panel led by retired Gauhati High Court judge Brojendra Prasad Katakey cited the violations and has made the recommendation in its progress report filed to NGT on Tuesday. It said despite Supreme Court orders, OIL did not carry out a biodiversity impact assessment study for the Baghjan well as it is located near the Dibru Saikhowa National Park and biosphere reserve, which is home to 36 mammal species including tiger, endangered Gangetic dolphins, feral horses, and 382 bird species.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Oil India Limited (OIL) was operating the natural gas well at Assam\u2019s Baghjan without required permissions when the uncontrolled escape of oil and gas, or blowout, began there in May, a National Green Tribunal (NGT) panel has said. The panel has recommended legal action against the public sector company and its officials over the violations that led to the blowout. The well later caught fire in June that continues to rage five months on and has claimed three lives and destroyed nearby houses. The panel led by retired Gauhati High Court judge Brojendra Prasad Katakey cited the violations and [&hellip;]<\/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-382570","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\/382570","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=382570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382570\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=382570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=382570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=382570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}