Sri Lanka’s CEB threaten TU action, Says not liable for inconvenience to public
Sri Lanka’s Ceylon Electricity Board Engineers Union (CEBEU), of the state owned electricity supplier Ceylon Electricity Board (CEB) is to take a trade union action from 20th April against its regulator Public Utilities Commission of Sri Lanka demanding the approval CEB’s power generation plan.
The regulator amended and approved the power generation plan in July 2017 after having wider stakeholder consultation.
The amended plan has replaced the coal power plants which were initially proposed by the CEB engineers with more liquid natural gas and renewable energy-based plants.
Writing to the Power and Renewable Minister Ranjith Siyabalapitiya, the engineers says that its members will not be liable for any failure or inconvenience caused to the public as this action has been taken af...