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by mytailorisrich 82 days ago
The current government is banning wind turbines factories and billions of Pounds in investments because "China". It is too easy to blame the previous government(s) when the current one has no strategic thinking or plan, either.
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jordand 82 days ago
The previous government was in power for 14 straight years. The current (useless) government only came into power in July 2024. Yes, I think the previous government should have some of the blame. Just to add, wind turbine factory investments have failed for a few other reasons too. One local to me fell through because it was no longer economically viable (local competition, low margin, and of course cheap imports)
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mytailorisrich 82 days ago
Chinese company Ming Yang was planning to invest 1+ billion to build a factory in Scotland. They were going to be the local competition. UK government has just officially refused to approve it. This is a government decision based on politics and lobbying from other interests (US gov and EU competitors) and yet another U-turn for the government (as apparently gov was initially keen...).
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GlacierFox 82 days ago
I don't want a Chinese company to own 1 billion pounds of energy infrastructure in Scotland.
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mytailorisrich 82 days ago
Because?...

This would have been a factory to produce wind turbines, which would have benefited the country. And I thought net-zero was a priority.

Essentially all solar panels are made in China. All our car factories are foreign-owned, and even nuclear power plants are.

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GlacierFox 81 days ago
Because? I just said. I'd rather _China_ don't own 1 billion pounds of our country's energy infrastructure. Are you being coy or are you seriously that naive? Utterly perplexed you need more of an explanation.

And all those things you mentioned. I'd rather they were all home-grown but I can live with the French having a chunk of our Nuclear - because I like the French.

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8note 82 days ago
couldnt you do the same thing china does? force them to have a local partner that ends up owning it?
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HPsquared 82 days ago
High prices and maximum rent extraction is the plan. Same plan as the Tories and everyone else who gets close to power.
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huijzer 82 days ago
What's the point that incompetence flips over to malice?
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