{"id":3793,"date":"2026-08-11T09:45:44","date_gmt":"2026-08-11T01:45:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/?p=3793"},"modified":"2026-08-11T09:45:47","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T01:45:47","slug":"oil-spill-from-a-barge-on-the-albert-canal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/2026\/08\/11\/oil-spill-from-a-barge-on-the-albert-canal\/","title":{"rendered":"Oil Spill from a Barge on the Albert Canal"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A barge carrying fuel oil was involved in a collision on the Albert Canal, resulting in the spill of approximately 10,000 liters of marine fuel into the waterway. An oil slick is spreading downstream with the current. The Flemish Environment Agency promptly activated its marine and river oil spill emergency response plan, deploying oil booms in the affected waters to contain the spill and dispatching cleanup vessels to recover the floating oil. The canal serves as a vital shipping route connecting the Port of Antwerp to Europe\u2019s inland waterways; should the oil spill spread extensively, it would harm both water intake points along the banks and the wildlife in the riparian wetlands.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A barge carrying fuel oil was involved in a collision on the Albert Canal, resulting in the spill of approximately 10,000 liters of marine fuel into the waterway. An oil slick is spreading downstream with the current. The Flemish Environment Agency promptly activated its marine and river oil spill emergency response plan, deploying oil booms [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":3794,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-event"],"views":51,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3793"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3793\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3795,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3793\/revisions\/3795"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}