Apologies for a non BFC post.

I am livid about the fact that steel is now to be supplied by China because it is cheaper. Oh yes. How much does it cost the environment by this shipping of goods. In the most polluting transport units on Earth. Time Magazine stated some years ago that the largest four ships in operation produced in a year more pollutants than all the vehicles, industry etc. did.

 

Add to that the benefits cost to the UK of 1700 people out of work and the health and social costs of a yet further deprived local economy and community.

It's a shame that the steel plant is in Redcar. If it was in Surrey then the T****s would be propping it up straightaway.

Northern powerhouse, my backside.

 

Unfortunately, nothing new there. Our coal industry has gone pretty much the same way, Subsidised coal transportation resulting in cheaper imported coal, The short-term policy of the 'Dash for Gas' in the 1980s. Funding stopped for cleaner coal-burning projects.
Oh so sad, but hey ho eh.

 

Same here. They just spent $6 billion on replacing one span of the Bay Bridge. I think the initial estimate was about $3 billion. All the steel was supplied by China, as were most of the construction companies. This was the one that collapsed in the 1989 earthquake. As soon as it opened there were unfixable problems with the steel rods standing in water and corroding and some breaking. All part of Obama's $787 billion Stimulus package and the "Shovel Ready Jobs". No one seems to know where the money went, or what good it did.

 

JC would step in to save it and John McDonnell stated that we would need to produce our own steel to help rebuild our neglected infrastructure.

You know what to do next time...