{"id":241922,"date":"2003-04-14T12:06:10","date_gmt":"2003-04-14T16:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2003\/04\/government-to-sign-agreement-with-aes-corp-in-two-weeks"},"modified":"2003-04-14T12:06:10","modified_gmt":"2003-04-14T16:06:10","slug":"government-to-sign-agreement-with-aes-corp-in-two-weeks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2003\/04\/government-to-sign-agreement-with-aes-corp-in-two-weeks","title":{"rendered":"Government To Sign Agreement With AES Corp. In Two Weeks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The government is two weeks away from signing a Heads of Agreement with AES Corporation for the construction of a pipeline that will transport liquefied natural gas (LNG) from The Bahamas to Florida, The Tribune has learned.<br \/>\n<P><br \/>\nLeslie Miller, minister of trade and industry, said the agreement, which is expected to add an additional $15-20 million per year to public revenues, is currently before the government&#8217;s legal department, which was making corrections to the document and is expected to complete its review in a matter of weeks.<br \/>\n<P><br \/>\nHe denied claims that AES Corporation and the other companies bidding to construct the pipeline, Tractebel and El Paso, had chosen The Bahamas for the project because of its &#8220;soft regulations.&#8221;<br \/>\n<P><B>The Tribune<\/B><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The agreement is expected to add an additional $15-20 million per year to public revenues, says Miller<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-241922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=241922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241922\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}