{"id":110642,"date":"2021-01-12T15:52:18","date_gmt":"2021-01-12T22:52:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=110642"},"modified":"2021-01-12T15:52:18","modified_gmt":"2021-01-12T22:52:18","slug":"mr-wes-edens-founder-of-new-fortress-energy-met-with-prime-minister-mahinda-rajapaksa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2021\/01\/12\/mr-wes-edens-founder-of-new-fortress-energy-met-with-prime-minister-mahinda-rajapaksa\/","title":{"rendered":"Mr. Wes Edens, Founder of New Fortress Energy met with Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa."},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><strong>Prime Minister\u2019s Media Unit<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Mr. Wes Edens, Founder of New\nFortress Energy, met Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa to discuss investment\nopportunities in the tourism, energy, transport and infrastructure sectors in\nSri Lanka. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mr. Edens who is on a short visit to\nSri Lanka expressed his interest in investing in cleaner, affordable and\nrenewable energy sources that are cost efficient and environmentally friendly.\nMr. Edens also showed keen interest in possible investment opportunities in\nareas of transport (railways), tourism and hospitality industries. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa and\nMr. Edens discussed areas in the tourism sector that could be further\ndeveloped. Introducing theme parks, converting and refurbishing buildings with\nhistoric value into hotels to enhance tourism in the region were few potential\nareas that they agreed had scope for development. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Developing new sources of energy and\nconverting the existing power plants into hydrogen power and further developing\nthe wind power plants in Sri Lanka to harness more power generation was also\ndiscussed extensively. Mr. Edens also expressed interest in assisting with the\ndevelopment of the railways in Sri Lanka. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mr. Wes Edens (CEO of new fortress\nenergy) and delegation, State Minister of Money &amp; Capital Market and State\nEnterprise Reforms, Hon. Ajith Nivard Cabraal and Secretary to the Prime\nMinister, Mr. Gamini Senarath were among the attendees. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prime Minister\u2019s Media Unit Mr. Wes Edens, Founder of New Fortress Energy, met Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa to discuss investment opportunities in the tourism, energy, transport and infrastructure sectors in Sri Lanka. Mr. Edens who is on a short visit to Sri Lanka expressed his interest in investing in cleaner, affordable and renewable energy sources [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110642","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=110642"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110642\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}