{"id":9686,"date":"2020-09-04T09:14:15","date_gmt":"2020-09-04T09:14:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/?p=9686"},"modified":"2020-09-04T09:14:17","modified_gmt":"2020-09-04T09:14:17","slug":"oil-tanker-fire-could-possibly-lead-to-worlds-worst-environmental-disaster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/oil-tanker-fire-could-possibly-lead-to-worlds-worst-environmental-disaster\/","title":{"rendered":"Oil tanker fire could possibly lead to world\u2019s worst environmental disaster"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sri Lanka\u2019s Marine Environment Protection Authority warns that if crude oil starts to leak from the Panamanian-registered oil tanker, which is still on fire off the island, it could possibly lead to the largest environmental disaster in the world and not just in the region.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe have to imagine that this is possibly going to be the largest environmental disaster in the world and not only within this region,\u201d the authority\u2019s chairperson Dharshani Lahandapura told Ada Derana \u2018Big Focus\u2019 on Friday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Sri Lanka Navy, Sri Lanka Air Force, Sri Lanka Ports Authority, the Indian Navy and the Indian Coast Guard are currently working together to control the fire that erupted after an explosion of a boiler in the main engine room of MT New Diamond, an oil tanker sailing 38 nautical miles off Sangamankanda Point east of Sri Lankan seas, around 8.00 a.m. on Thursday (03).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Courtesy: Adaderana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sri Lanka\u2019s Marine Environment Protection Authority warns that if crude oil starts to leak&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":9687,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9686\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}