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Post by woolybanana on Jul 19, 2023 19:27:35 GMT 1
Now, now, silly, no links to any party, just good subsidy placings. Actually I think the ******. far surpass the UK when it comes to bribery or subsidy.
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Post by tim17 on Jul 19, 2023 20:32:06 GMT 1
The fact that Labour and the LibDems are supportive suggests they would also give any new factory all the financial help required, if it comes off and provides 4000 jobs what's the problem?
How many Mairies here have bunged Ryanair millions to attract flights to tiny underused airports?
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Post by woolybanana on Jul 19, 2023 20:44:59 GMT 1
Plus frigates, submarines, fighter aircraft……
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Post by exile on Jul 19, 2023 20:59:20 GMT 1
I wonder how many jobs there will be, because robot will be king in this factory, if its ever built. It was reported that there would be 4,000 direct jobs plus an estimated 1,000 in the various supply industries. AS for the subsidies and incentives, the UK has done what many other governments have done and will do. That is why mainland Europe is far ahead in terms of factories producing EV batteries. UK late to the dance - again. |
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Post by ForumUser2 on Jul 19, 2023 20:59:34 GMT 1
The fact that Labour and the LibDems are supportive suggests they would also give any new factory all the financial help required, if it comes off and provides 4000 jobs what's the problem? How many Mairies here have bunged Ryanair millions to attract flights to tiny underused airports? Plus frigates, submarines, fighter aircraft…… I don't think you can get many frigates, submarines or fighter aircraft into tiny underused airports. |
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Post by mysty on Jul 19, 2023 21:40:46 GMT 1
I don't get it.
Food banks running out of food for the needy no money for free school meals for some children that would be there only meal but for a billionaire they can make him even richer.
The world is completely flecked up.
Sky news featured that rabid liar who still blames the EU for his banking troubles.
It's no surprise they do not want him as a customer.
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Post by Nifty on Jul 20, 2023 6:45:30 GMT 1
How many Mairies here have bunged Ryanair millions to attract flights to tiny underused airports? The Mayor of Carla Bayle where we were considering buying a town house that finished up being bought by a previous ( Prime ?) Minister of France, perhaps it was next door, used to toke frequent trips to Holland. Several years later scores of new houses were built nearby on what was agricultural land. Oddly, they are mostly inhabited by Dutch. |
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Post by Polarengineer on Jul 20, 2023 9:10:35 GMT 1
4000 jobs? Can't think what they will all be doing, anyway that helps place a lot of immigrants because I doubt the locals will want to work after so long on the dole.
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Post by Aardvark on Jul 20, 2023 9:17:45 GMT 1
I had a toke or two in Holland years ago myself.
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Post by Aardvark on Jul 20, 2023 9:19:51 GMT 1
So the consensus is if the new factory creates thousands of new jobs (aka: vote winner) any considerations of environmental damage are irrelevant.
Fair enough.
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Post by exile on Jul 20, 2023 10:22:25 GMT 1
There will inevitably be an environmental impact.
If you walk down the garden, the pressure of your foot on the soil has an environmental impact.
the question is how big is the environmental impact.
It is not an easy question to answer either. Could you argue for example that not having "local" battery production delays the transfer from polluting IC engines to less polluting electric ones; the import of electric batteries from abroad will be polluting and finally allowing batteries to be made elsewhere is just exporting your pollution.
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Post by cernunnos on Jul 20, 2023 10:53:52 GMT 1
Sofar the West has done pretty well at exporting pollution.
Far better to keep the pollution where the products are made, don't tell the folk in Somerset about Bhopal.
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Post by woolybanana on Jul 20, 2023 11:16:31 GMT 1
Somerset already has atomic power stations, surely that is enough?
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Post by exile on Jul 20, 2023 11:59:29 GMT 1
The vicinity to the power station is exactly why Somerset is a good choice - close to the power needed to make and do the initial charge of the batteries = minimal infrastructure needed. The same logic applied to BritishVolt to be built on the site of a former power station so the heavy duty HT cabling is already close by.
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Post by cernunnos on Jul 20, 2023 13:10:59 GMT 1
Nuclear power station owned by French and Chinese, won't be ready for a while (2028 ) battery factory owned by Indian billionaires. What can go wrong ?
Will they need all the power from the French/ Chinese power station to charge the Indian Batteries to drive the German cars in the UK?  |
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