{"id":15967,"date":"2011-12-07T23:09:46","date_gmt":"2011-12-08T04:09:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=15967"},"modified":"2011-12-07T23:23:35","modified_gmt":"2011-12-08T04:23:35","slug":"bahamas-oil-drilling-exacerbates-concerns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2011\/12\/bahamas-oil-drilling-exacerbates-concerns","title":{"rendered":"Bahamas Oil Drilling Exacerbates Concerns"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_15974\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15974\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-15974\" title=\"oilspill\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/oilspill.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/oilspill.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/oilspill-150x112.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-15974\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chris Graythen\/Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Just as South Florida braces for oil drilling set to begin next month off the shores of Cuba, a Bahamian company is pressing to dig exploratory wells as early as next year less than 200 miles from the state&#8217;s delicate coastline.<\/p>\n<p>The Bahamian plans could eventually bring rigs as close as 40 miles from Port Everglades.<\/p>\n<p>The prospect of energy exploration off both Cuba and the Bahamas has broadened concerns that widespread drilling will lead to a major oil spill that pollutes the East Coast, fouling beaches, damaging reefs and endangering wildlife.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The prospect of oil drilling off both Cuba and the Bahamas has heightened concerns that widespread drilling could lead to a major oil spill spelling destroying beaches, reefs and endangering wildlife.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[76,244],"class_list":["post-15967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headlines","tag-environment-2","tag-oil"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15967\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}