Another example of how this government is accelerating the steady de-
industrialisation of Britain. It's insidious but continual.
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Gordon Brown's promise to create 100,000 new jobs, renewing Britain's
infrastructure, including 'greening' energy and industry, looks
rather shaky as companies building new power stations refuse to take
on local workers.
RWE's sub-contractors on the Staythorpe gas-fired power station in
Nottinghamshire are two Spanish firms, Montpressa and FMM. Both
announced that they had no intention of employing local labour, or
indeed using UK workers for the vast majority of the work on the
site, telling enraged construction unions they would supply workers
from abroad.
And who is also in the running to receive massive government funding
to build a demonstration carbon capture and storage (CCS) plant in
the UK, its location yet to be decided ? Why it's RWE of course!
In December the German energy giant bought a 75% stake in Peel
Energy, which is already pre-qualified for the CCS competition, in
order to get a foothold in the carbon capture and storage game in the
UK.
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