{"id":3646,"date":"2026-07-09T09:01:34","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T01:01:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/?p=3646"},"modified":"2026-07-09T09:01:37","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T01:01:37","slug":"mercury-leak-at-australian-offshore-oil-and-gas-field","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/2026\/07\/09\/mercury-leak-at-australian-offshore-oil-and-gas-field\/","title":{"rendered":"Mercury Leak at Australian Offshore Oil and Gas Field"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Australia\u2019s marine regulatory agency issued an official penalty notice regarding a mercury leak from a process pipeline at the Ixus offshore oil and gas field, operated by Japan\u2019s Inpex Corporation. The leak resulted in a large volume of mercury-contaminated waste liquid being discharged directly into the tropical waters off northern Australia. On-site tests showed that mercury levels in the seawater at the leak site exceeded safety standards by 11 times. Once mercury enters the marine environment, it rapidly accumulates along the food chain, increasing the risk of heavy metal accumulation in local coral reefs, tropical fish, and sea turtles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australia\u2019s marine regulatory agency issued an official penalty notice regarding a mercury leak from a process pipeline at the Ixus offshore oil and gas field, operated by Japan\u2019s Inpex Corporation. The leak resulted in a large volume of mercury-contaminated waste liquid being discharged directly into the tropical waters off northern Australia. On-site tests showed that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":3647,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-marine-protection"],"views":44,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3646"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3646\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3648,"href":"http:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3646\/revisions\/3648"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}