{"id":4945,"date":"2011-10-13T06:12:42","date_gmt":"2011-10-13T10:12:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/?p=4945"},"modified":"2011-10-17T09:50:56","modified_gmt":"2011-10-17T13:50:56","slug":"morning-read-canadian-defense-contractor-moving-hq-to-north-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2011\/10\/13\/morning-read-canadian-defense-contractor-moving-hq-to-north-country\/","title":{"rendered":"Morning Read:  Canadian defense contractor moving HQ to North Country"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.watertowndailytimes.com\/article\/20111013\/NEWS05\/710139852\">Watertown Daily Times<\/a> is reporting that General Propulsion Inc, a Canadian company, is moving its headquarters to Ogdensburg, so that the company will qualify to work on projects with the US Navy.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cIt would result in a sizable number of jobs; 220 is the estimate  based on the business plan,\u201d City Manager Arthur J. Sciorra said.<\/p>\n<p>Mr.  Sciorra has been involved in discussions with General Propulsion Inc.,  an Ottawa, Ontario, firm that develops technologies for the Canadian and  American navies as well as a host of private companies including  Rolls-Royce, Siemens and Westinghouse.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have an agreement in  place with the city,\u201d said John Hensler, General Propulsion vice  president. \u201cWe are looking at moving operations so we can work with the  U.S. Navy.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The facility would also be close to Canada&#8217;s capital, Ottawa, making Ogdensburg a strategic location, according to the WDT.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.watertowndailytimes.com\/article\/20111013\/NEWS05\/710139852\">Read more here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Watertown Daily Times is reporting that General Propulsion Inc, a Canadian company, is moving [&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":[880,10,4786],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4945"}],"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=4945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4945\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}