{"id":133309,"date":"2023-03-28T17:18:48","date_gmt":"2023-03-29T00:18:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=133309"},"modified":"2023-03-28T17:18:48","modified_gmt":"2023-03-29T00:18:48","slug":"energy-minister-assures-continued-supply-of-fuel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2023\/03\/28\/energy-minister-assures-continued-supply-of-fuel\/","title":{"rendered":"Energy Minister assures continued supply of fuel"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Adaderana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Minister of Power and Energy Kanchana Wijesekera has assured that there are sufficient stocks of fuel in the country, and that distribution will continue as usual.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Taking to Twitter, the Minister urged the public not to panic over a potential shortage in the supply of fuel owing to the recent actions taken by the trade union collective of the Ceylon Petroleum Corporation (CPC).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"\u0d89\u0db1\u0dca\u0db0\u0db1 \u0db6\u0dd9\u0daf\u0dcf\u0dc4\u0dd0\u0dbb\u0dd3\u0db8\u0dda \u0d9a\u0da7\u0dba\u0dd4\u0dad\u0dd4\u0dc0\u0dbd\u0da7 \u0daf\u0dd0\u0da9\u0dd2 \u0d86\u0dbb\u0d9a\u0dca\u0dc2\u0dcf\u0dc0\u0d9a\u0dca...\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/87eDJwaJ3oM?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>He confirmed that fuel distribution, although delayed earlier today owing to the trade union activists, has been normalised.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Minister also added that police and armed forces have been deployed to provide the necessary security at petroleum terminals and distribution points.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The&nbsp; Petroleum Trade Unions\u2019 Collective yesterday (27 March) staged a Satyagraha opposite the Kolonnawa petroleum terminal against the government\u2019s alleged ongoing attempts to privatise the CPC.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Satyagraha was called off this afternoon, after which the trade union collective announced its decision to launch a strike action, withdrawing themselves from engaging in the filling and distribution of fuel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Adaderana Minister of Power and Energy Kanchana Wijesekera has assured that there are sufficient stocks of fuel in the country, and that distribution will continue as usual. Taking to Twitter, the Minister urged the public not to panic over a potential shortage in the supply of fuel owing to the recent actions taken by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[183],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133309","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=133309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133309\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}