{"id":547369,"date":"2010-04-29T15:05:27","date_gmt":"2010-04-29T19:05:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seattletimes.nwsource.com\/html\/northwestvoices\/2011735124_oilplatformexplodesingulfofmexico.html?syndication=rss"},"modified":"2010-04-29T15:05:27","modified_gmt":"2010-04-29T19:05:27","slug":"oil-platform-explodes-in-gulf-of-mexico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/547369","title":{"rendered":"Oil platform explodes in Gulf of Mexico"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Drilling not so thrilling<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This is a response to \u201cOil-platform explosion illustrates risks of Gulf of Mexico drilling,\u201d News, April 28. In the last month, seven workers were killed by an explosion in an oil refinery in Anacortes, 29 coal miners were killed in an explosion in a coal mine in West Virginia and, on Earth Day, a dozen or so workers died when on oil rig off the Gulf Coast exploded and sank into the ocean.<\/p>\n<p>None of these tragedies would have occurred if our country had switched to safe and clean energy sources. Now, several days after the sinking of the oil rig, people seem surprised to learn that oil is leaking out of the rig into the ocean.<\/p>\n<p>Drilling for oil in the ocean would always pollute the aquatic environment. Tankers carrying oil always run the risk of capsizing and killing enormous amounts of fish, sea mammals, sea flora and seabirds.<\/p>\n<p>President Obama has reopened ecologically fragile areas for oil drilling, threatening extinction of polar bears, whales and other species. The Senate needs to pass the Clean Energy bill before more tragedies occur.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u2014 Janalee Roy, Tacoma<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Drilling not so thrilling This is a response to \u201cOil-platform explosion illustrates risks of Gulf of Mexico drilling,\u201d News, April 28. In the last month, seven workers were killed by an explosion in an oil refinery in Anacortes, 29 coal miners were killed in an explosion in a coal mine in West Virginia and, on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2861,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-547369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2861"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=547369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547369\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=547369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=547369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=547369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}