{"id":103925,"date":"2024-02-12T12:08:28","date_gmt":"2024-02-12T16:08:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nowgrenada.com\/?p=103925"},"modified":"2024-02-12T12:08:28","modified_gmt":"2024-02-12T16:08:28","slug":"grenada-will-not-be-affected-by-tobago-oil-spill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nowgrenada.com\/2024\/02\/grenada-will-not-be-affected-by-tobago-oil-spill\/","title":{"rendered":"Grenada will not be affected by Tobago oil spill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>by Linda Straker<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>1,000 volunteers have joined TT government staff to clean up<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Oil spill expected to be contained to south of Tobago<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>State of Grenada currently NOT under threat of impact from oil spill<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The National Disaster Management Agency (NaDMA) in Grenada said that the state is not expected to be affected by the oil spill affecting the south-western coast of Tobago after a mysterious vessel by the name \u201cThe Gulfstream\u201d capsised in that location last week.<\/p>\n<p>No emergency call was received from the ship.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Agency has contacted the Office of Disaster Preparedness and Management (ODPM), Trinidad and Tobago, for an update on the situation. ODPM has informed that it has conducted assessments which include satellite imagery and aircraft fly-over,\u201d said the release which said that the oil spill is expected to be contained to the south of Tobago.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe results indicate that the oil spill is contained to the south of Tobago. Consequently, the State of Grenada is currently NOT under threat of impact from the oil spill. NaDMA will continue to monitor this development and provide updates as necessary,\u201d the release promised.<\/p>\n<p>Media reports out of Trinidad and Tobago (TT) state that some 1,000 volunteers have joined government staff to clean up the spill and divers have been trying to isolate the leak from the vessel, which was abandoned by its crew.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>State of Grenada is currently NOT under threat of impact from the oil spill off Tobago<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":103931,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6613],"tags":[4713,1087,19192,31091,904],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/nowgrenada.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/oil-pollution-water-created-with-generative-ai-technology.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nowgrenada.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103925"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nowgrenada.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nowgrenada.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nowgrenada.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nowgrenada.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103925"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nowgrenada.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103925\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":103927,"href":"https:\/\/nowgrenada.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103925\/revisions\/103927"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nowgrenada.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/103931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nowgrenada.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nowgrenada.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nowgrenada.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}