I’m a bit confused!
1 – Vestas Wind Systems is shutting the Isle of Wight site because it says…
the UK wind turbine market is not big enough to sustain UK manufacturing site.
2 – Residents of Welshpool are up in arms about about five years of potential disruption as up to 150 Wind Turbine are moved through their small town as one of Europe biggest wind farms is built on various hills in Powys – to supply electricity for Liverpool and Manchester!
3 – Local sources tell me that the Turbines and blades will be imported from Germany!
4 – The UK government has announced a grant of over £6 million to a wind turbine firm’s research centre on the Isle of Wight, despite its plans to cut 625 jobs and shut its factory.
Some where along the line I think there is a bit of government departmental non-communication going on here and a fine example of the left hand not knowing what the right is doing.
Why are we paying money to company for a UK research centre when they are shutting their UK manufacturing site. Nudge, Nudge; Wink, Wink; I smell a rat here!
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