{"id":107169,"date":"2020-10-01T17:15:49","date_gmt":"2020-10-02T00:15:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=107169"},"modified":"2020-10-01T17:15:49","modified_gmt":"2020-10-02T00:15:49","slug":"mt-new-diamond-will-only-be-granted-permission-to-leave-after-negotiations-are-completed-mepa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2020\/10\/01\/mt-new-diamond-will-only-be-granted-permission-to-leave-after-negotiations-are-completed-mepa\/","title":{"rendered":"MT New Diamond will only be granted permission to leave after negotiations are completed  &#8211; MEPA"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Hiru News<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p> MEPA informed the&nbsp;Attorney General that relevant authorities have been informed that approval permitting the MT New Diamond to leave will only be granted after negotiations are completed regarding oil pollution damage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>MEPA has stated that they will grant approval to tow the ship away from of Sri Lankan waters as per the\u00a0authority given to MEPA by the Marine Pollution Prevention Act No. 35 of 2008, once the negotiation\u00a0process is completed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is because\u00a0they are in the process of negotiating through AG\u2019s Dept., with the Owners \/ P &amp; I Club and their lawyers to secure a guarantee for the environmental pollution resulted due the oil spill. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Hiru News MEPA informed the&nbsp;Attorney General that relevant authorities have been informed that approval permitting the MT New Diamond to leave will only be granted after negotiations are completed regarding oil pollution damage. MEPA has stated that they will grant approval to tow the ship away from of Sri Lankan waters as per the\u00a0authority [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[156],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-107169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-law-order"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107169\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}