{"id":20320,"date":"2020-08-10T07:54:47","date_gmt":"2020-08-10T04:54:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/?p=20320"},"modified":"2020-08-09T21:24:21","modified_gmt":"2020-08-09T18:24:21","slug":"mauritius-declares-environmental-emergency-after-oil-spill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/environmental-news-en\/mauritius-declares-environmental-emergency-after-oil-spill\/","title":{"rendered":"Mauritius declares environmental emergency after oil spill"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"smart_content_wrapper\"><p>The Indian Ocean island of Mauritius has declared a \u201cstate of environmental emergency\u201d after a Japanese-owned ship that ran aground offshore days ago began spilling tons of fuel. The prime minister, Pravind Jugnauth, made the announcement late on Friday as satellite images showed a dark slick spreading in the turquoise waters near environmental areas that the government called \u201cvery sensitive\u201d. Mauritius has said the ship was carrying nearly 4,000 tons of fuel and cracks have appeared in its hull.<\/p>\n<p>The French island of Reunion is the closest neighbour to Mauritius, and France\u2019s foreign ministry says France is Mauritius\u2019s \u201cleading foreign investor\u201d and one of its largest trading partners. \u201cWe are in a situation of environmental crisis,\u201d the environment minister of Mauritius, Kavy Ramano, said, calling the Blue Bay Marine Park and other areas near the leaking ship \u201cvery sensitive\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Tons of diesel and oil are now leaking into the water, Greenpeace Africa\u2019s climate and energy manager Happy Khambule said in a statement. \u201cThousands of species around the pristine lagoons of Blue Bay, Pointe d\u2019Esny and Mahebourg are at risk of drowning in a sea of pollution, with dire consequences for Mauritius\u2019s economy, food security and health,\u201d Khambule said. A government environmental outlook released nearly a decade ago said Mauritius had a national oil spill contingency plan but equipment on hand was \u201cadequate to deal with oil spills of less than 10 metric tonnes\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/aug\/07\/mauritius-declares-environmental-emergency-after-oil-spill\">Guardian<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Indian Ocean island of Mauritius has declared a \u201cstate of environmental emergency\u201d after a Japanese-owned ship that ran aground offshore days ago began spilling&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13701,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_FSMCFIC_featured_image_caption":"","_FSMCFIC_featured_image_nocaption":null,"_FSMCFIC_featured_image_hide":null,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[31],"tags":[865,6069,600,6070,192],"class_list":["post-20320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-environmental-news-en","tag-africa","tag-fossilfuels","tag-france","tag-mauritius","tag-oil","wpcat-31-id"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/beach-4644063_1280.jpg?fit=100%2C98&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20320"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20320\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20322,"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20320\/revisions\/20322"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}