General chat.& Random stuff

  • Please bear with us on the new site integration and fixing any known bugs over the coming days. If you can not log in please try resetting your password and check your spam box. If you have tried these steps and are still struggling email [email protected] with your username/registered email address
  • Log in now to remove adverts - no adverts at all to registered members!
You must log in or register to see media
You must log in or register to see media
The national grid needs to be expanded ,this in terms of new power lines and substations and talking to a mate who works in Port Talbot and the reckons that the steel that will be needed ( hundreds of thousands of tonnes ) will have to be imported because Port Talbot won't be able to supply the quality needed.
Another cock up by our so called betters
 
Despite Tata Steel's Port Talbot plant being the UK's single biggest emitter of planet-warming carbon dioxide, Greenpeace UK has branded the decision to shut them down "tragic".

"We should be absolutely clear that those blast furnaces closed because of a lack of strategy from Tata and from the government," says Paul Morozzo, senior climate campaigner at Greenpeace.

"They weren't closed because of carbon emissions."

He says the charity wanted a long term decarbonisation strategy, which "wouldn't have the kind of job losses that are happening at Port Talbot".

Mr. Morozzo is absolutely correct - the closure of the Blast Furnaces is testimony to Tata’s abject rudderless ownership of steelmaking in the UK.