{"id":119331,"date":"2021-10-18T15:28:53","date_gmt":"2021-10-18T22:28:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=119331"},"modified":"2021-10-18T15:28:53","modified_gmt":"2021-10-18T22:28:53","slug":"cardinal-ranjith-and-ven-elle-gunawansa-thero-file-fr-petition-over-yugadanavi-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2021\/10\/18\/cardinal-ranjith-and-ven-elle-gunawansa-thero-file-fr-petition-over-yugadanavi-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Cardinal Ranjith and Ven. Elle Gunawansa Thero file FR petition over Yugadanavi deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Adaderana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Archbishop of Colombo His Eminence Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith and Venerable Elle Gunawansa Thero have filed a fundamental rights petition before the Supreme Court against the transfer of shares of the Yugadanavi LNG Power Plant in Kerawalapitiya.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"\u0dba\u0dd4\u0d9c\u0daf\u0db1\u0dc0\u0dd2 \u0d9c\u0dd2\u0dc0\u0dd2\u0dc3\u0dd4\u0db8\u0da7 \u0d91\u0dbb\u0dd9\u0dc4\u0dd2\u0dc0 \u0db4\u0dd9\u0dad\u0dca\u0dc3\u0db8\u0d9a\u0dca...\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-8BVHnBKIGI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The petition requests the court to issue an order to nullify the Cabinet decision on transferring state-owned shares of the Yugadanavi power plant to a US company.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa, other members of the Cabinet, West Coast Power Limited (WCP) &#8211; the owner of the 310 MW Yugadanavi Power Plant, the US-based company New Fortress Energy and the Attorney General are among the 54 respondents named in the fundamental rights petition&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The petition states that the decision taken by the Cabinet of Ministers to transfer 40% stake in the company owning the Yugadanavi Power Plant to the US company in question was not justified.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It states that the Cabinet has failed to focus on issues such as the national economy and national security before taking the relevant decisions.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The New Fortress Energy, in a statement, recently said it will acquire a 40% ownership stake in the WCP and plans to develop a new liquified natural gas (LNG) receiving, storage and regasification terminal located off the coast of Colombo.<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Adaderana Archbishop of Colombo His Eminence Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith and Venerable Elle Gunawansa Thero have filed a fundamental rights petition before the Supreme Court against the transfer of shares of the Yugadanavi LNG Power Plant in Kerawalapitiya.&nbsp; The petition requests the court to issue an order to nullify the Cabinet decision on transferring state-owned [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[156,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-119331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-law-order","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119331","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=119331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119331\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}