{"id":51010,"date":"2014-12-02T08:53:32","date_gmt":"2014-12-02T08:53:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=309ceb018b971d6322b20c0cc8661217"},"modified":"2014-12-02T08:53:32","modified_gmt":"2014-12-02T08:53:32","slug":"press-release-secretary-of-state-for-wales-welcomes-talks-on-swansea-bay-tidal-lagoon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=51010","title":{"rendered":"Press release: Secretary of State for Wales welcomes talks on Swansea Bay Tidal Lagoon"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>Welsh Secretary Stephen Crabb today (2 December) welcomed progress towards the world\u2019s first power generating tidal lagoon potentially being built in Wales. <\/p>\n<p>It follows today\u2019s announcement in the National Infrastructure Plan that the government will start closer discussions with Tidal Lagoon Power Ltd who want to build a tidal lagoon in Swansea Bay. <\/p>\n<h3 id=\"secretary-of-state-for-wales-stephen-crabb-said\">Secretary of State for Wales Stephen Crabb said:<\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p>This is great news for Wales and has the potential to provide a massive boost to the Welsh economy &#8211; creating thousands of jobs, attracting millions of pounds worth of investment and helping to secure Wales\u2019s energy future.<\/p>\n<p>Wales is already home to some of the most cutting edge companies in the world and the country is uniquely placed to pioneer tidal power.<\/p>\n<p class=\"last-child\">I am a strong supporter of this project and I have long been making the case to my Cabinet colleagues that Welsh innovation should be supporting the next generation of low-carbon technology.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stephen Crabb: &quot;I want Wales to have the world&#8217;s first power generating tidal lagoon.&quot;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51010"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51010"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51010\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}