{"id":9356,"date":"2016-07-22T16:39:51","date_gmt":"2016-07-22T15:39:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unitelive.org\/?p=9356"},"modified":"2016-07-22T16:39:51","modified_gmt":"2016-07-22T15:39:51","slug":"crunch-decision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/?p=9356","title":{"rendered":"Crunch decision"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>The meeting of the EDF board of directors on Thursday (July 28) to make the crunch decision on the financial go-ahead for the Hinkley Point nuclear power station has been welcomed by Unite.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bIt has been a long journey, but we are within sight of the \u00e2\u20ac\u0098promised land\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 \u00e2\u20ac\u201c the making of the \u00e2\u20ac\u0098final investment decision\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 (FID) for the Somerset plant,&#8221; said Unite national officer for energy Kevin Coyne.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bThe go-ahead is desperately needed on a number of grounds \u00e2\u20ac\u201c to help keep the lights on in Britain in the decades ahead and as a fulcrum for the creation of thousands of jobs and related economic activity in the West Country.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bThe FID will be the last piece of the complex financial jig-saw for this much-needed project \u00e2\u20ac\u201c we warmly welcome the fact that the board of the energy giant EDF is poised to make this historic decision,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bThis will be the first big litmus test for large infrastructure projects receiving the go-ahead, following the Brexit vote last month.\u00e2\u20ac\u0165<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Unite and the other unions involved regard the go-ahead for the \u00c2\u014118bn project, which would generate seven per cent of UK electricity demand, as vital in terms of providing thousands of jobs and \u00e2\u20ac\u0098keeping the lights on\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 in the years ahead.\u00c2\u00a0 Because of delays, the start date for electricity generation has been put back to 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The meeting of the EDF board of directors on Thursday (July 28) to make the crunch decision on the financial go-ahead for the Hinkley Point nuclear power station has been welcomed by Unite. &nbsp; \u00e2\u20ac\u015bIt has been a long journey, but we are within sight of the \u00e2\u20ac\u0098promised land\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 \u00e2\u20ac\u201c the making of the \u00e2\u20ac\u0098final [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[54,474],"wps_subtitle":"Hinkley Point financial go-ahead in sight","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9356"}],"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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9356"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9356\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9357,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9356\/revisions\/9357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}