{"id":68308,"date":"2017-07-28T12:43:20","date_gmt":"2017-07-28T19:43:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=68308"},"modified":"2017-07-28T12:43:31","modified_gmt":"2017-07-28T19:43:31","slug":"cpc-unions-stirke-against-privatization-of-hambantota-trincomalee-and-demand-to-develop-sapugaskanda-refinery-news-item","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2017\/07\/28\/cpc-unions-stirke-against-privatization-of-hambantota-trincomalee-and-demand-to-develop-sapugaskanda-refinery-news-item\/","title":{"rendered":"CPC UNIONS STIRKE AGAINST PRIVATIZATION OF \u00a0HAMBANTOTA .TRINCOMALEE AND DEMAND TO DEVELOP SAPUGASKANDA REFINERY  NEWS ITEM"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Dr Sarath Obeysekera<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Few years back I myself took some investors from UAE and Germany to then SLPA chairman with a proposal to manage bunkering operation in Hambantota following a tender .Then SLPA chairman was so rude to the investor and almost kicked us out .He claimed that SLPA wants to do their own bunkering because some politicians were planning to get involved in buying oil for the bunkering tank farm .It\u00a0 was dragged so long and CPC never even bothered to ask for the right of operation \u00a0as SLPA owned\u00a0 the tanks .<\/p>\n<p>Why didn\u2019t they strike at that time ?<\/p>\n<p>Refinery for Trinco and other shipyard proposals were planned but\u00a0 then government did not want to proceed because they had their own plans ,Almost 100 \u00a0yearsold \u00a0tank farm is idling and Indians do not even allow anyone to go in .Government at that time just kept quite<\/p>\n<p>Why didn\u2019t the\u00a0 CPC union strike at that time ?<\/p>\n<p>Sapugaskande Refinery upgrading was to be done with Iranian funding under SOREM program Much money was spent and many \u00a0studies were done I assume that land was also acquired ,But the government never wanted do anything .<\/p>\n<p>Why didn\u2019t the\u00a0 CPC union strike at that time ?<\/p>\n<p>CPC was run by a General under the patronage of the defence secretary who knew his onions, No one dared to cross his path.<\/p>\n<p>As I said before Yahapalanya Pudding is being eaten by all and yet claim that it is stale !<\/p>\n<p>I agree with TNA .We should keep Service to supply fuel as essential service indefinitely<\/p>\n<p>Dr Sarath Obeysekera<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Sarath Obeysekera Few years back I myself took some investors from UAE and Germany to then SLPA chairman with a proposal to manage bunkering operation in Hambantota following a tender .Then SLPA chairman was so rude to the investor and almost kicked us out .He claimed that SLPA wants to do their own bunkering [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68308","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=68308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68308\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}