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UK Wind Turbine Factory to Close?
The Government was facing a growing credibility gap over green jobs last night as environmental campaigners and trade unionists united to fight the closure of Britain’s sole major wind turbine plant.
Only last week, ministers proclaimed a green employment future for the UK involving 400,000 jobs in environmental industries such as renewable energy – yet this week they are declining to intervene over the forthcoming closure of the Vestas Wind Systems plant on the Isle of Wight, with nearly 600 redundancies.
Independent: ‘Wind power plan blown off course’
July 26th, 2009 at 5:54 am
A senior director of Vestas was interviewed on the prestigious BBC Radio 4 ‘Today Programme’ this morning. He made it clear that the company’s major market was now the US and they had therefore switched production to the US.
He did ‘gripe’ at the UK planning system, but also let slip that the company had had to make 1200 people in Denmark (their home) redundant. That is double the amount of people involved in the UK situation. So it is not all down to lack of UK government action as most of the climate change activists allege.