{"id":28956,"date":"2012-12-04T08:16:41","date_gmt":"2012-12-04T13:16:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=28956"},"modified":"2012-12-04T08:23:14","modified_gmt":"2012-12-04T13:23:14","slug":"crews-working-to-contain-grand-bahama-oil-spill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2012\/12\/crews-working-to-contain-grand-bahama-oil-spill","title":{"rendered":"Cargo Ship Leaves Oil Spill In Grand Bahama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2012\/12\/crews-working-to-contain-grand-bahama-oil-spill-28956.html\/oil-spill-2\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-28958\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-28958\" title=\"oil-spill\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/oil-spill.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/oil-spill.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/oil-spill-150x112.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a>Bahamian government officials said that a cargo ship has been slowly leaking oil off the northernmost island of the Bahamas.<\/p>\n<p>Transport Minister Glenys Hanna-Martin said Monday that the ship&#8217;s hull was somehow breached off Grand Bahama island and that the spill occurred following a cargo vessel&#8217;s departure from the Freeport Container Port to Florida.<\/p>\n<p>However, after observing the container ship from a helicopter, Ms. Hanna-Martin is describing it as a &#8220;tier one spill,&#8221; the least threatening type.<\/p>\n<p>Crews are working to contain the leakage from the vessel, which was carrying some 3,000 gallons of oil. The Bahamas has not called on the U.S. Coast Guard for assistance.<\/p>\n<p>Environment Minister Kenrid Dorsett says it does not appear to be &#8220;as bad as originally feared.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Dorsett says the Bahamas will issue an update within the next 72 hours.<\/p>\n<p>It is reported that the oil tanker may have spilled thousands of gallons of oil.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bahamian government officials say that a cargo ship has been slowly leaking oil off the northernmost island of the Bahamas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"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":[10],"tags":[81,816],"class_list":["post-28956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world","tag-grand-bahama","tag-oil-spill"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28956","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28956\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}