{"id":437,"date":"2012-02-02T10:28:55","date_gmt":"2012-02-02T10:28:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scotland.gov.uk\/scotlands-economy\/?p=437"},"modified":"2016-08-24T17:54:50","modified_gmt":"2016-08-24T16:54:50","slug":"samsung-chooses-scotland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.gov.scot\/scotlands-economy\/2012\/02\/02\/samsung-chooses-scotland\/","title":{"rendered":"Samsung chooses Scotland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I welcome the news that\u00a0Korean\u00a0company Samsung Heavy Industries (SHI) is to base its first European offshore wind project in Fife.\u00a0The investment is worth up to \u00a3100m\u00a0and is expected to create more than 500 new jobs in Scotland.<\/p>\n<p>The First Minister took part in the announcement earlier this week and recorded this video:<\/p>\n<p><iframe data-src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/AgbvpLRgcn8?rel=0\" width=\"465\" height=\"266\" frameborder=\"0\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" data-load-mode=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I welcome the news that\u00a0Korean\u00a0company Samsung Heavy Industries (SHI) is to base its first European offshore wind project in Fife.\u00a0The investment is worth up to \u00a3100m\u00a0and is expected to create more than 500 new jobs in Scotland.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":45,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[128,127,110],"class_list":["post-437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy-2","tag-investment","tag-jobs","tag-offshore-wind"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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