{"id":5975,"date":"2011-01-31T09:52:12","date_gmt":"2011-01-31T14:52:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=5975"},"modified":"2011-01-31T09:52:12","modified_gmt":"2011-01-31T14:52:12","slug":"green-bahamas-goal-could-be-threatened-by-oil-exploration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2011\/01\/green-bahamas-goal-could-be-threatened-by-oil-exploration","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Green&#8217; Bahamas Goal Could be Threatened By Oil Exploration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A local attorney is arguing a completely &#8220;green&#8221; Bahamas that could bring billions of dollars of revenue to the economy could be threatened by present moves to grant oil exploration licenses and subsequent drilling for that black gold.<\/p>\n<p>As Paul Moss sees it, a national move in the environmentally-friendly direction could lead to benefits that could in turn lead to real sustainability in tourism; however, he noted that moves to allow oil exploration licenses may work contrary to that goal.<\/p>\n<p>He paints a picture of companies relocating their businesses to the country because of a 100 percent commitment to green living. It&#8217;s the kind of land, he said, many Bahamians would be proud to leave for their children and grandchildren.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A local attorney is arguing a completely &#8220;green&#8221; Bahamas that could bring billions of dollars of revenue to the economy could be threatened by present moves to grant oil exploration licenses and subsequent drilling for that black gold.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"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":[3],"tags":[76,40],"class_list":["post-5975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","tag-environment-2","tag-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5975","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\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5975\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}