{"id":661690,"date":"2013-06-07T09:40:28","date_gmt":"2013-06-07T13:40:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/serkadis.com\/index\/?guid=c77212521113f75e26062233eb60f20c"},"modified":"2013-06-07T09:40:28","modified_gmt":"2013-06-07T13:40:28","slug":"news-story-prime-minister-visits-diageo-distillery-to-see-how-renewable-energy-is-powering-growth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/661690","title":{"rendered":"News story: Prime Minister visits Diageo distillery to see how renewable energy is powering growth"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>The Prime Minister today visited the Cameronbridge Distillery in Fife, where drinks business <a rel=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.diageo.com\/en-row\/newsmedia\/pages\/resource.aspx?resourceid=1498\">Diageo<\/a> recently completed a unique renewable energy facility. The facility powers the distillery by recycling the natural co-products of distillation, and is a flagship for Diageo\u2019s ambition to drive environmentally sustainable growth.<\/p>\n<p>Cameronbridge Distillery is a key part of Diageo\u2019s Scotch whisky production business. Scotch represents one of the UK\u2019s outstanding economic success stories, with industry exports generating \u00a3135-per-second for the UK balance of trade in 2012.<\/p>\n<p>The Prime Minister said: <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Whisky is an iconic product with a rich heritage and a fantastic future. It is a truly global brand.<\/p>\n<p>It was a real pleasure to see the Cameronbridge Distillery. It is at the cutting edge of the spirits industry, a world leader in embracing bioenergy technology and a major contributor to Scotland\u2019s economy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"last-child\">All those who work there should be proud of what they produce.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>During the visit to the distillery, the Prime Minister met a group of Diageo apprentices who work across a range of engineering, scientific and craft roles at the distillery. He also hammered the bung \u2013 a ceremonial tradition in the Scotch whisky industry \u2013 into a cask of single grain spirit produced using renewable energy from the bioenergy plant. The Prime Minister\u2019s cask will now be laid down to mature for 10 years, with a pledge to auction it to raise money for environmental good causes in the future.<\/p>\n<p>Read more about the visit on <a rel=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.diageo.com\/en-row\/newsmedia\/pages\/resource.aspx?resourceid=1498\">Diageo\u2019s website.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Prime Minister today visited the Cameronbridge Distillery in Fife, where drinks business Diageo recently completed a unique renewable energy facility. The facility powers the distillery by recycling the natural co-products of distillation, and is a flagship for Diageo\u2019s ambition to drive environmentally sustainable growth. Cameronbridge Distillery is a key part of Diageo\u2019s Scotch whisky [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8172,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-661690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8172"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=661690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661690\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=661690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=661690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=661690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}