{"id":2376,"date":"2010-07-13T10:39:32","date_gmt":"2010-07-13T14:39:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/?p=2376"},"modified":"2010-07-13T11:40:19","modified_gmt":"2010-07-13T15:40:19","slug":"diesel-fuel-spill-on-seaway-in-quebec","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2010\/07\/13\/diesel-fuel-spill-on-seaway-in-quebec\/","title":{"rendered":"Diesel fuel spill on Seaway in Quebec"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UPDATE, 11:37am: The <em>Richelieu<\/em> spilled bunker fuel, not diesel fuel.\u00a0 It ran aground after losing power in a canal between two locks just across the river from Montreal.\u00a0 Seaway spokesman Andrew Bogora says the spill was contained to the canal and never reached the open river.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;-<\/p>\n<p>Shipping on the St. Lawrence Seaway is suspended right now, after a Canada Steamship Lines freighter ran aground near the C\u00f4te-Sainte-Catherine lock, south of Montreal.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.montrealgazette.com\/news\/leak+shuts+part+Lawrence\/3270261\/story.html\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.montrealgazette.com\/news\/leak+shuts+part+Lawrence\/3270261\/story.html\">According to the Montreal Gazette<\/a>, the ship leaked 50 to 200 tons of bunker fuel into the River.\u00a0 A Canadian Seaway spokesman says the spill has been &#8220;completely contained&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The incident occurs just a week after another ship ran aground in the Chippewa Bay section of the St. Lawrence Seaway.\u00a0 That freighter leaked only corn.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll have more on this developing story this afternoon on All Before Five and tomorrow on The 8 O&#8217;Clock Hour.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UPDATE, 11:37am: The Richelieu spilled bunker fuel, not diesel fuel.\u00a0 It ran aground after losing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2376"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2376"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2376\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2377,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2376\/revisions\/2377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}