{"id":2387,"date":"2010-07-17T09:33:16","date_gmt":"2010-07-17T13:33:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/?p=2387"},"modified":"2010-07-17T09:33:16","modified_gmt":"2010-07-17T13:33:16","slug":"canadian-company-seeks-us-stimulus-money-to-build-lake-champlain-power-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2010\/07\/17\/canadian-company-seeks-us-stimulus-money-to-build-lake-champlain-power-line\/","title":{"rendered":"Canadian company seeks US stimulus money to build Lake Champlain power line"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Friday, the Canadian company TDI acknowledged that its American subsidiary will ask for hundreds of millions of dollars in loans and loan guarantees from the US government as part of the Federal stimulus program.<\/p>\n<p>Company CEO Don Jessome said at a hearing in Plattsburgh that credit markets for major projects dried up in the wake of the financial collapse.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Loans for projects of this size and scale became much more difficult.\u00a0 So it&#8217;s certainly an integral part of our go-forward strategy, is to achieve that loan guarantee program.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>TDI&#8217;s bid for Federal aid on the project being reviewed now by the Obama administration.\u00a0 Jessome said the fact that his firm is largely Canadian-owned doesn&#8217;t disqualify it from applying for stimulus aid.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll have more on this story Monday during the 8 O&#8217;clock Hour.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Friday, the Canadian company TDI acknowledged that its American subsidiary will ask for hundreds [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2387"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2387\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}