{"id":668891,"date":"2020-10-05T09:46:06","date_gmt":"2020-10-05T13:46:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=668891"},"modified":"2020-10-05T09:46:06","modified_gmt":"2020-10-05T13:46:06","slug":"why-we-should-leave-old-oil-rigs-in-the-sea-and-why-we-dont","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=668891","title":{"rendered":"Why we should leave old oil rigs in the sea,\u00a0and why we don&#039;t"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Decommissioning the UK&#8217;s offshore oil and gas infrastructure will cost the taxpayer \u00a324 billion, according to estimates from HMRC. So why can&#8217;t we leave man-made structures in the sea and thereby save the cost of removal and recycling? That would be a big win for the public purse. However, to do that, we would have to test the pillars of sustainability: the economy, environment and society.&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2020-10-oil-rigs-seaand-dont.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Why we should leave old oil rigs in the sea,\u00a0and why we don&#8217;t<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Phys.org&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Decommissioning the UK&#8217;s offshore oil and gas infrastructure will cost the taxpayer \u00a324 billion, according to estimates from HMRC. So why can&#8217;t we leave man-made structures in the sea and&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-668891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-phys-org"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668891","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=668891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668891\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=668891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=668891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=668891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}