{"id":38351,"date":"2013-08-19T07:50:11","date_gmt":"2013-08-19T11:50:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=38351"},"modified":"2013-08-19T08:14:29","modified_gmt":"2013-08-19T12:14:29","slug":"texaco-gas-leak-taking-too-long-to-resolve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2013\/08\/texaco-gas-leak-taking-too-long-to-resolve","title":{"rendered":"Texaco Gas Leak Taking Too Long To Resolve"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"More than seven months after an underground gasoline leak was discovered at Texaco on Robinson Road, the long-awaited assessment that could reveal who is at fault for parts of Marathon being \u201ccontaminated\u201d, has still not been completed.<\/p>\n

Minister of the Environment Kenred Dorsett pledged to meet with international consultants, Black and Veatch Corporation, to get an update on the gasoline leak, which was discovered in January.<\/p>\n

RUBIS, the owner of the Texaco franchise, and international consultant SENES Consultants Limited were previously engaged.<\/p>\n

In June, Dorsett told reporters that as a result of a potential conflict with “SENES possibly providing some advice to a parent company of RUBIS at some point” the government opted for Black and Veatch to investigate.<\/p>\n

Dorsett said Black and Veatch will advise the government on the way forward with health and safety protocols for petroleum retailers, a sector that is currently unregulated.<\/p>\n

As previously reported, RUBIS absorbed the cost for a group of Robinson Road and Old Trail Road residents to be connected to the Water and Sewerage Corporation’s (WSC) network.<\/p>\n

At least four homes in the area using water wells were connected because they were of “immediate concern”.<\/p>\n

Another 12 homes with existing connections, but using water wells intermittently, were also fully connected.<\/p>\n

Source: The Nassau Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

An assessment on an underground gas leak that was discovered in January at Texaco on Robinson Road is long overdue.<\/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":[76,377],"class_list":["post-38351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headlines","tag-environment-2","tag-gas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38351","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=38351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38351\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}