{"id":2452,"date":"2014-12-04T19:32:17","date_gmt":"2014-12-05T00:32:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=2452"},"modified":"2014-12-04T19:32:17","modified_gmt":"2014-12-05T00:32:17","slug":"%e2%80%8bmillions-of-liters-of-oil-spilled-in-israel-flooding-nature-reserve-photos-rt-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=2452","title":{"rendered":"\u200b\u2018Millions of liters\u2019 of oil spilled in Israel, flooding nature reserve (PHOTOS) \u2014 RT News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rt.com\/news\/211551-oil-spill-devastates-israel\/\">\u200b\u2018Millions of liters\u2019 of oil spilled in Israel, flooding nature reserve (PHOTOS) \u2014 RT News<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"vertical-align: baseline; font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.4em; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 15px 0px;\">A pipeline breach near the Israel-Jordan border has flooded a nature reserve in what authorities call one of Israel\u2019s worst environmental disasters, causing large amounts of potentially poisonous gas to be released near Aqaba, raising health concerns.<\/p>\n<p style=\"vertical-align: baseline; font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.4em; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 15px 0px;\"><span style=\"vertical-align: baseline; background-color: initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;\">The Eilat-Ashkelon crude oil pipeline near the Evrona reserve in the south of Israel accidentally ruptured Wednesday night spewing a river of oil across the desert. Israeli environment officials predict that the clean-up effort could take years.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: 'Segoe UI', 'Gill Sans Light', Helvetica; font-size: 10px; color: #000000; line-height: normal;\"><iframe id=\"twitter-widget-0\" class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\" style=\"display: block; max-width: 99%; min-width: 220px; border-top-left-radius: 5px; border-top-right-radius: 5px; border-bottom-right-radius: 5px; border-bottom-left-radius: 5px; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.148438) 0px 1px 3px; width: 500px; position: static; visibility: visible; border-width: 1px; border-color: #eeeeee #dddddd #bbbbbb #dddddd; border-style: solid; padding: 0px; margin: 10px 0px 10px 0px;\" title=\"Embedded Tweet\" height=\"0\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"vertical-align: baseline; font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.4em; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 15px 0px;\"><em style=\"vertical-align: baseline; font-style: italic; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;\">\u201cThe full scope of the incident is still not clear to us, but it is certainly a matter of millions of liters of crude oil, which is dangerous both to animals and to the nature reserve itself,&#8221;<\/em>\u00a0Environment Ministry representative Guy Samet was quoted as saying in Globes, as Israeli financial news daily.<\/p>\n<p style=\"vertical-align: baseline; font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.4em; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 15px 0px;\">Samet has said that an estimated 4.3 mile-oil stream is flowing through the reserve, which is home to a large gazelle population and the world\u2019s northernmost doum palms, a rare type of branching palm tree.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: 'Segoe UI', 'Gill Sans Light', Helvetica; font-size: 10px; color: #000000; line-height: normal;\"><iframe id=\"twitter-widget-1\" class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\" style=\"display: block; max-width: 99%; min-width: 220px; border-top-left-radius: 5px; border-top-right-radius: 5px; border-bottom-right-radius: 5px; border-bottom-left-radius: 5px; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.148438) 0px 1px 3px; width: 500px; position: static; visibility: visible; border-width: 1px; border-color: #eeeeee #dddddd #bbbbbb #dddddd; border-style: solid; padding: 0px; margin: 10px 0px 10px 0px;\" title=\"Embedded Tweet\" height=\"0\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"vertical-align: baseline; font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.4em; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 15px 0px;\"><em style=\"vertical-align: baseline; font-style: italic; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;\">&#8220;This is one of the State of Israel&#8217;s gravest pollution events,&#8221;<\/em>\u00a0Samet told Israel Radio on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"vertical-align: baseline; font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.4em; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 15px 0px;\">&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u200b\u2018Millions of liters\u2019 of oil spilled in Israel, flooding nature reserve (PHOTOS) \u2014 RT News. 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