Tata Steel: Thousands of Port Talbot steel workers at risk

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Originally Posted by pipster

We are out of the EU, so the EU laws on stopping state intervention / competitor advantage are gone - unless they are part of some other agreement ?

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The Conservative gov vetoed the ban on Chinese steel, so I wouldn't hold my breath.

They did that for a reason - we only make 8 millions tonnes per year - chinese do 800 millions tonnes, how much other stuff do we import from china ?
Ideally reduce the need for Chinese goods and materials.
When Drakeford was building the new link road down the docks it was constructed with steel from Germany - even though over the road Allied steel Wire produced the same product.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-wales-68006496

Port Talbot's steelworks over the years

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Originally Posted by ninian opinian

What’s happened since this announcement 4 months ago?

https://x.com/rishisunak/status/1702...LTsVTx09ZSEfIA

Crooks.

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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-66819458

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Originally Posted by Talksport

Not to worry, Drakeford will put plans in place before he fecks off

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He'll be remembered as the person who took us back into the stone age!

on the very day Indian company Tata announce this devasting news Coal India arms approved to invest $674m in 2.26GW power plants . Net Zero my arse

what a kick in the teeth for the workers at Port Talbot .

https://www.power-technology.com/new...view&cf-closed

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Originally Posted by MOZZER2

on the very day Indian company Tata announce this devasting news Coal India arms approved to invest $674m in 2.26GW power plants . Net Zero my arse

what a kick in the teeth for the workers at Port Talbot .

https://www.power-technology.com/new...view&cf-closed

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That's awfully close to £500m !!

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Originally Posted by PontBlue

It's been under threat of closure for years. They are closing it because they can make the same product for cheaper elsewhere and Port Talbot is a loss maker. Tata are using Climate Change as a smokescreen.

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This. If they were serious about electric furnace they would have kept one blast furnace working whilst building the former. Otherwise what are they going to do with the remaining 1000 employees whilst the construction goes on? Maybe they intend to start construction immediately - I have no idea how long it will take - could it be ready by September? Seems a very short time to me!

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Originally Posted by cityhammer

Exactly, its why protests by people like JustStopOil are ill conceived. If the UK unilaterally stops oil exploration you dont take away the demand for oil, so oil will still be resourced, just not by us. Same as the closure of the opencast at Merthyr, the cal will still be required, e'll just import it. We are crucifying our economy for the environment when in the grand scheme of things we are having no affect whatsoever as we are just moving the emissions from the UK to other more polluting countries.

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Oooh look! They're kicking the shit out of the planet over there! Let's kick the shit out of it here too then!