{"id":1876,"date":"2016-07-18T08:23:24","date_gmt":"2016-07-18T08:23:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cebeu.lk\/cebeuw\/?p=1876"},"modified":"2016-07-18T08:56:34","modified_gmt":"2016-07-18T08:56:34","slug":"sri-lanka-lng-moves-undermine-governance-energy-security-bellwether","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cebeu.lk\/?p=1876","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka LNG moves undermine governance; energy security: Bellwether"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ri Lanka\u2019s power sector has been dogged by bad political decision-making that has pushed up costs and loaded Ceylon Electricity Board with expensive power plants that are outside the Long-Term Generation Plan. CEB planners from the 1980s advocated coal as a key source of cheap base load power as hydro resources ran out. Religious \u2013 both Buddhist and Catholic \u2013 and environmental lobbies delayed coal plants.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.economynext.com\/Sri_Lanka_LNG_moves_undermine_governance;_energy_security__Bellwether-3-5293-2.html\">Read More<\/a><br \/>\n<script><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ri Lanka\u2019s power sector has been dogged by bad political decision-making that has pushed up costs and loaded Ceylon Electricity Board &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1877,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-recent-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cebeu.lk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cebeu.lk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cebeu.lk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cebeu.lk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cebeu.lk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1876"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.cebeu.lk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1876\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1882,"href":"https:\/\/www.cebeu.lk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1876\/revisions\/1882"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cebeu.lk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cebeu.lk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cebeu.lk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cebeu.lk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}