Britain is set to become the only G20 country without the capacity to make steel from raw materials, with its largest factory expected to be 'greened', cutting around 3,000 jobs in the process. is.
Indian-owned Tata Steel said on Friday it would scrap the blast furnace at its Port Talbot steelworks in Wales and replace it with an electric arc furnace to reduce carbon emissions.
The move, for which the poorly named Conservative government has spent £500 million of taxpayers' money to make it happen, will mean the UK will no longer be able to produce steel domestically from raw materials, given that electric furnaces can only convert recycled material. That would mean. Process the material into steel.
This form of recycled steel is much weaker than that made from raw materials, so it cannot be used to manufacture military vehicles or other defense projects. It means the UK will be the only country in the G20 that cannot produce steel domestically from raw materials. guardian report.
The steel mill's green transformation will also take more than four years to complete, eliminating 2,800 jobs and severely impacting the small town of 32,000, which has already suffered from decades of deindustrialization. .
Port Talbot Multi-Union Deputy Chairman Gary Keogh commented on the plans. Said: “This plant is not part of a community, it is a community. We are fighting for a way of life right now. We are an endangered species…The mood is desolate, uncertain and perhaps overnight , in my case it would definitely be anger.”
Mr Keogh also questioned the supposed environmental benefits of repurposing steelworks, saying the UK would only look for unused steel overseas, even if off-site and on the other side of the world. Even if we lost more carbon, it would mean even more carbon would be emitted, he said.
“They want to make steel in Jamshedpur.” [India] … Take ships with diesel engines across thousands of miles of ocean and call it eco-friendly. “It's time for people to be honest,” he said.
Net-zero madness kills 3,000 skilled steel workers.
Labor and the Conservatives are so obsessed with net zero that they don't care about manufacturing workers.
Only Reform Britain is championing and promoting these workers. pic.twitter.com/5GuT18sMu2
— Richard Tice (@TiceRichard) January 19, 2024
This analysis was echoed by the chairman. audience Former BBC presenter Andrew Neil I have written inside daily mail: “Ironically, destroying our heavy industry won't actually reduce global CO2 emissions. Converting Port Talbot to greener vape production would reduce CO2 emissions by 1.5 per cent. expected to be reduced.
Neil also pointed out that China's carbon dioxide emissions have soared by 13 percent compared to the past. “We will be overwhelmed by rising emissions,” he added. Reductions from the UK's net zero policy will therefore be 'swamped'.
The veteran journalist went on to characterize the government-led decision by Tata Steel as emblematic of the failures of London's political elite and the “green virtue signaling” they deliver at the expense of working-class communities. I attached it.
He wrote that the ruling Conservative Party and the left-wing opposition Labor Party, which have traditionally championed workers before the green shift, were “letting ordinary British people down”. They agree that they support net zero, whatever the cost in terms of lost jobs, prosperity, energy security and economic growth. ”
Richard Tice, leader of the British Reform Party founded by Nigel Farage, Said British steelworkers have been “sacrificed on the altar of net-zero madness”.
“Labour doesn’t care, Keir Starmer doesn’t care, Ed Miliband doesn’t care, the Tories don’t care, Rishi Sunak doesn’t care… They’re all crazy about net zero is.”
Mr Tice said Reform UK was the only major UK party to stand up for workers, pledging to “promote and protect skilled manufacturing jobs in the UK”.
A company linked to the Chinese Communist Party buys a third of the British steel industry https://t.co/tH5wr5HgXT
— Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) November 11, 2019
