{"id":275502,"date":"2026-02-09T17:33:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T17:33:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/275502\/"},"modified":"2026-02-09T17:33:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T17:33:10","slug":"anglers-call-for-proper-plan-to-tackle-woodford-a14-oil-spill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/275502\/","title":{"rendered":"Anglers call for &#8216;proper plan&#8217; to tackle Woodford A14 oil spill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said: &#8220;Oil is a poison, especially when mixed with water. Birds, fish, people, pets and livestock are all at risk.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The situation has been mismanaged. There&#8217;s been no containment [of the spill] whatsoever.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Nick Urquhart, who runs a local litter-picking group and is also a member of Nene Anglers, said the situation was becoming critical.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s a disaster not only for anglers, but for all the people who use and enjoy the Nene Valley,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"He said: &#8220;Oil is a poison, especially when mixed with water. Birds, fish, people, pets and livestock are&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":275503,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[273,111,139,69,147],"class_list":["post-275502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=275502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275502\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/275503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=275502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=275502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}