{"id":18898,"date":"2019-09-17T13:07:50","date_gmt":"2019-09-17T12:07:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unitelive.org\/?p=18898"},"modified":"2020-11-12T12:55:34","modified_gmt":"2020-11-12T12:55:34","slug":"govt-lack-of-support-puts-teesside-jobs-in-jeopardy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/?p=18898","title":{"rendered":"Potash mine plans on hold"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Unite reacted angrily to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/business-49725711\">news toda<\/a>y (Tuesday September 17) that Sirius Minerals has been forced to halt plans to build a potash mine in North Yorkshire.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Once operational the potash mine would have created hundreds of jobs both in North Yorkshire and Teesside where there are plans to build a processing plant at the former steelworks in Redcar.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Unite national officer Ian Woodland said, \u00e2\u20ac\u015bThis is a vital project for a region which is crying out for new investment and jobs.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bThe government\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s failure to support this project is a major reason why Sirius Minerals has had to put its plans on hold and look at alternative ways to finance its project.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bThe government must now rectify its error, support the scheme and help to generate jobs on Teesside where they are desperately needed.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bIn order to ensure that this vitally needed project sees the light of day it is imperative that Sirius Minerals works in cooperation with Unite going forward so that we can create first class, highly motivated, unionised jobs.\u00e2\u20ac\u0165<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unite reacted angrily to the news today (Tuesday September 17) that Sirius Minerals has been forced to halt plans to build a potash mine in North Yorkshire. &nbsp; Once operational the potash mine would have created hundreds of jobs both in North Yorkshire and Teesside where there are plans to build a processing plant at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6759,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[122,55,456,423],"wps_subtitle":"Govt lack of support puts Teesside jobs in jeopardy","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18898"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18898"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18898\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25009,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18898\/revisions\/25009"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}