{"id":12853,"date":"2014-02-13T04:49:10","date_gmt":"2014-02-13T11:49:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/?p=12853"},"modified":"2014-02-13T04:49:41","modified_gmt":"2014-02-13T11:49:41","slug":"navy-pollutes-hood-canal-protests-planned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/navy-pollutes-hood-canal-protests-planned\/","title":{"rendered":"Navy Pollutes Hood Canal&#8211;Protests Planned"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Spill Larger Than Admitted<\/strong><\/h1>\n<div style=\"width: 670px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Benefits of the Military-Industrial Complex--a gift that keeps on giving\" alt=\"Navy: Oil spill in Hood Canal larger than first estimated\" src=\"http:\/\/media.komonews.com\/images\/140211_bangor_oil_spill_660.jpg\" width=\"660\" height=\"446\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dogs of War<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>BANGOR, WA. &#8211;<\/strong> An oily waste spill into Hood Canal at the Bangor naval submarine base is about 13 times larger than first estimated, Navy officials said.<\/p>\n<p>The Navy said in a statement that about 2,000 gallons of oily waste spilled into the scenic waterway during a transfer of ship overboard discharge Monday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>The spill initially was estimated to be about 150 gallons.<\/p>\n<p>The Navy, the state Department of Ecology and the U.S. Coast Guard are working together to contain and clean up the spill, which was caused by a malfunction in a pierside oily waste transfer system at the base.<\/p>\n<p>Containment booms were placed around the spill, but not before an unknown quantity of oily waste escaped.<\/p>\n<p>Oil spill response equipment from several regional Navy commands is on scene supporting the cleanup.<\/p>\n<p>The effects of this spill to wildlife or property are unknown at this time, said Navy spokesman Tom Danaher.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spill Larger Than Admitted BANGOR, WA. &#8211; An oily waste spill into Hood Canal at the Bangor naval submarine base is about 13 times larger than first estimated, Navy officials said. The Navy said in a statement that about 2,000 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/navy-pollutes-hood-canal-protests-planned\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12853"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12853\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12855,"href":"https:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12853\/revisions\/12855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}