{"id":339,"date":"2011-12-12T10:45:04","date_gmt":"2011-12-12T10:45:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/duncanmcneil.com\/wordpress\/?p=339"},"modified":"2014-06-25T15:07:35","modified_gmt":"2014-06-25T15:07:35","slug":"renewables-bid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/duncanmcneil.com\/wordpress\/?p=339","title":{"rendered":"Renewables Bid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>12<sup>th<\/sup> December 2011<\/p>\n<p>Greenock and Inverclyde MSP Duncan McNeil has called on the Scottish Government to assist Inverclyde\u2019s bid for green manufacturing jobs.<\/p>\n<p>On the back of poor unemployment figures across Scotland, the MSP quizzed Enterprise Minister Fergus Ewing over plans to use Inchgreen dry dock as renewables manufacturing base.<\/p>\n<p>He also asked the minister to consider Inverclyde as a possible enterprise area when they are announced in the New Year.<\/p>\n<p>He said: \u201cWith unemployment increasing all over Scotland, we need to play to our strengths in Inverclyde and make the case for investment in our area.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have the skills and the infrastructure to play our part in the renewables industry but we will need support if we are to make it happen.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe introduction of enterprise areas provides one opportunity to give us an edge in this market and I have asked the Scottish Government to consider Inverclyde.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is only fair that communities like ours which suffer disproportionately from the cuts receive the investment and support needed to tackle the scourge of unemployment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>12th December 2011 Greenock and Inverclyde MSP Duncan McNeil has called on the Scottish Government to assist Inverclyde\u2019s bid for green manufacturing jobs. On the back of poor unemployment figures across Scotland, the MSP quizzed Enterprise Minister Fergus Ewing over plans to use Inchgreen dry dock as renewables manufacturing base. He also asked the minister [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-release"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/duncanmcneil.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/duncanmcneil.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/duncanmcneil.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/duncanmcneil.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/duncanmcneil.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=339"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/duncanmcneil.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":340,"href":"https:\/\/duncanmcneil.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339\/revisions\/340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/duncanmcneil.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/duncanmcneil.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/duncanmcneil.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}