{"id":18922,"date":"2020-06-02T21:29:50","date_gmt":"2020-06-02T12:29:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jun\/02\/assam-oil-well-still-leaking-gas-one-week-after-blowout"},"modified":"2020-06-02T21:29:50","modified_gmt":"2020-06-02T12:29:50","slug":"assam-oil-well-still-leaking-gas-one-week-after-blowout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=18922","title":{"rendered":"Assam oil well still leaking gas one week after blowout"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>About 2,500 people evacuated, amid fears that leaking oil and gas has killed river dolphins and birds <\/p>\n<p>An oil well in the Indian state of Assam is still leaking gas \u201cuncontrollably\u201d after a blowout a week ago that it is feared has killed endangered river dolphins and birds and forced 2,500 people to evacuate their homes.<\/p>\n<p>For days authorities have failed to plug the leak from the well in the village of Baghjan after the incident on 27 May. The blowout \u2013 an uncontrolled release of oil and gas due to the failure of pressure control systems \u2013 sent a fountain of crude oil into the air, \u201cunleashing a hell\u201d, according to local accounts.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jun\/02\/assam-oil-well-still-leaking-gas-one-week-after-blowout\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About 2,500 people evacuated, amid fears that leaking oil and gas has killed river dolphins and birds An oil well in the Indian state of Assam is still leaking gas \u201cuncontrollably\u201d after a blowout a week ago that it is feared has killed endangered rive&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":663,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[65,62,449,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-india","category-oil","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/663"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18922"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18922\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18923,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18922\/revisions\/18923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}