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Disaster for the folk directly affected and for the local economy. Short sighted plan really. How long is it going to take to build the electric arc smelter and will there be enough green energy to run it? No more virgin steel to be made there. Meanwhile UK will import virgin steel from places such as China who don't give a hoot about burning coal to fuel their blast furnaces.
Apparently, once British Steel's Scunthorpe plant also closes its blast furnaces, UK will be the only G20 country not able to make steel from raw materials
It’s estimated knock on effect to the local economy: 12,000 jobs lost and £3.2 billion.
It's going to devastate Port Talbot, and to a certain extent, Bridgend as well. A very short-sighted decision - if they planned to close it, then work on a replacement should have started a long time ago. Wales is turning into a job wasteland.
Tragic but not a surprise.
I'm hoping it's just TATA angling for more money off the Gov.
The Tories don’t give a flying fig about Wales or any other area with Labour voters. They’re only interested in the “money men” Trouble is Labour is just as bad, because they’re incompetent of leading the Country.
This is the the worst thing to happen to Wales since we left the EU.
It's more than that now, mate.
It's becoming more and more apparent that the UK Government haven't been no help at all.
Welsh Gov simply can't help, whether they want to or not. Welsh Gov's powers only really extend to keeping somewhere like McArthur Glen open. They are powerless when there are international supply chains.
Huge victim of the general green agenda which is going to be a big political battle in coming years.
What annoys me is that this shit will still be made, but in China now, with less environmental regulations and then shipped to Europe from there.
Agree with comments about the green agenda. It is costing thousands of jobs yet India and China are producing lots of cheap steel from their heavy uncontrolled industry
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.