They’ve been threatening this for years, if this is it, then it’s a _massive_ hit to the area. Last I heard the government had offered some subsidy for upgrading facilities to appease them but no idea if that was agreed to.
3000 direct plus tens of thousands more in the area. Shops, pubs, contractors, suppliers.
When Ravenscraig finally shut down there were 1200 direct jobs lost and an estimated 15,000 in the wider community.
This is a big blow to the people of the area and the resultant knock on effects, but rest assured that for the Government the important thing is that the Conservative Party is now united thanks to the Rwanda Bill.
And if the furnaces up north (Scunthorpe) to the same way we’ll be the only G20 state with no ability to make our own steel.
Utterly insane. Places like steelworks, refineries, HV switching sites should be kept and nationalised as strategic assets!
This is the sacrifice that needs to be made for going green.
At the same time government is not investing in future crucial inventions and improvement. To create jobs for now and future savings or improvements of life.
Well fuck. Thank you Conservative government, getting the last few stabs in before they go. Bunch of cunts. That’ll decimate a whole community. And alls we have to look forward to is Starmer. Fml.
I was lucky enough to get to see the blast furnaces from inside the works as a teenager on an engineering outreach programme some 20 years ago. I’ve never forgotten how strangely beautiful it was, in a raw industrial kind of way, to see the gargantuan ladle tipping out its molten iron like it was butter. You can see pictures and watch videos but you’ll never quite get the overwhelming sense of perspective it gives you to be so small against something so massive.
I think that’s kind of metaphorical for the impact that this will have on the town. All the mining, smelting, quarrying and so on has long gone from the valleys and left poverty and addiction in its wake. This was the last mighty relic that despite all the challenges had continued to provide for the families of Port Talbot generations after it began.
If we had a serious government they’d say one word to Tara Steel.
‘No.’
Absolutely incredible how we are de-industrialising to the extent where we are about to lose our entire steel industry & are patting ourselves on the back for it for going green.
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They’ve been threatening this for years, if this is it, then it’s a _massive_ hit to the area. Last I heard the government had offered some subsidy for upgrading facilities to appease them but no idea if that was agreed to.
3000 direct plus tens of thousands more in the area. Shops, pubs, contractors, suppliers.
When Ravenscraig finally shut down there were 1200 direct jobs lost and an estimated 15,000 in the wider community.
This is a big blow to the people of the area and the resultant knock on effects, but rest assured that for the Government the important thing is that the Conservative Party is now united thanks to the Rwanda Bill.
And if the furnaces up north (Scunthorpe) to the same way we’ll be the only G20 state with no ability to make our own steel.
Utterly insane. Places like steelworks, refineries, HV switching sites should be kept and nationalised as strategic assets!
This is the sacrifice that needs to be made for going green.
At the same time government is not investing in future crucial inventions and improvement. To create jobs for now and future savings or improvements of life.
Well fuck. Thank you Conservative government, getting the last few stabs in before they go. Bunch of cunts. That’ll decimate a whole community. And alls we have to look forward to is Starmer. Fml.
I was lucky enough to get to see the blast furnaces from inside the works as a teenager on an engineering outreach programme some 20 years ago. I’ve never forgotten how strangely beautiful it was, in a raw industrial kind of way, to see the gargantuan ladle tipping out its molten iron like it was butter. You can see pictures and watch videos but you’ll never quite get the overwhelming sense of perspective it gives you to be so small against something so massive.
I think that’s kind of metaphorical for the impact that this will have on the town. All the mining, smelting, quarrying and so on has long gone from the valleys and left poverty and addiction in its wake. This was the last mighty relic that despite all the challenges had continued to provide for the families of Port Talbot generations after it began.
If we had a serious government they’d say one word to Tara Steel.
‘No.’
Absolutely incredible how we are de-industrialising to the extent where we are about to lose our entire steel industry & are patting ourselves on the back for it for going green.
What a country