• Brexit threatens UK's future in energy; Hinkley Point Nuclear Plant construction will be complicated
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[quote]Vital energy projects including the £18bn Hinkley Point C nuclear power plant and interconnectors used to import cheap electricity from Europe are under threat due to Brexit, energy experts have warned. They said the projects, which are key to efforts to keep the UK’s lights on, [B]could be at risk if the energy sector is denied entry to Europe’s internal energy market.[/B] That looks increasingly likely, after the European parliament passed a resolution on Wednesday opposing “piecemeal or sectoral provisions” for individual UK industries. Speaking at an event organised by the Energy and Climate Intelligence Unit, experts said plans by French power firm EDF to build two new reactors at Hinkley Point C could be affected. Antony Froggatt, senior research fellow at Chatham House, said EDF was already concerned that Brexit will make it harder to import skilled EU nationals to build Hinkley, [B]which is slated to provide 7% of UK electricity.[/B] “I was at a conference recently where EDF were saying [B]their main concern about skills was specialised steel fitters for the construction[/B] of Hinkley,” he said. “They said there were not enough in the country to build Hinkley and therefore this is the main area that they’re concerned about.” He added that the [B]staff shortage could be exacerbated by the building of the HS2 high-speed rail link,[/B] which will be competing with Hinkley to attract steel fitters.[/quote] [url]https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/apr/05/uk-energy-projects-hinkley-point-threatened-brexit-experts-warn[/url]
This has the potential to affect us too due to lines going from Britain itno us.
all of this just so Unionists feel good...
well at least we can fund the NHS guys! Like seriously, a proper report into the effects should have been done before we just started signing off the divorce papers because of some 2% division in the country.
[QUOTE=Pie_Tony;52071988]well at least we can fund the NHS guys! Like seriously, a proper report into the effects should have been done before we just started signing off the divorce papers because of some 2% division in the country.[/QUOTE] There were actually many done, but the Tory party decided to ignore them.
Casual reminder that our current Prime Minister read a completely made up news report about an illegal not being deported because he had a pet cat. [URL="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-15160326"]http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-15160326[/URL]
[QUOTE=thisguy123;52072815]Casual reminder that our current Prime Minister read a completely made up news report about an illegal not being deported because he had a pet cat. [URL="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-15160326"]http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-15160326[/URL][/QUOTE] I fail to see how this has anything to do with Theresa May, when she was merely fulfilling a party pledge that had been made before she got into office. If as soon as she got in, she declared that she wouldn't trigger it, she would no longer have a mandate and therefore shouldn't be in office, as her being in office is down to Cameron's untenable position after the results of the referendum, after having fought for the remain side.
it is a good time to become a steel fitter. [editline]7th April 2017[/editline] [QUOTE=James xX;52073068]I fail to see how this has anything to do with Theresa May, when she was merely fulfilling a party pledge that had been made before she got into office. If as soon as she got in, she declared that she wouldn't trigger it, she would no longer have a mandate and therefore shouldn't be in office, as her being in office is down to Cameron's untenable position after the results of the referendum, after having fought for the remain side.[/QUOTE] I fail to see how this is related to Brexit. Brexit isn't a blanket refusal of foreign labour, is it? If we need certain skilled labour, we will allow them entry, no doubt.
[QUOTE=UK Bohemian;52073123]it is a good time to become a steel fitter. [editline]7th April 2017[/editline] I fail to see how this is related to Brexit. Brexit isn't a blanket refusal of foreign labour, is it? If we need certain skilled labour, we will allow them entry, no doubt.[/QUOTE] The link would be that the title of this article literally has brexit as its first word?
[QUOTE=UK Bohemian;52073123]I fail to see how this is related to Brexit. Brexit isn't a blanket refusal of foreign labour, is it? If we need certain skilled labour, we will allow them entry, no doubt.[/QUOTE] Assuming the UK will not remain in the EEA, work visa runs you a lot of dough, and having to find temporary housing when you not longer have a right to live/work in the UK is not an easy or profitable work environment for European tradesman. Most of those skilled steel fitters that would have otherwise been on board will probably choose to remain in Europe where they don't have to lose the equivalent of a paycheck or two in order to just work at all. Why would you ditch your wife/kids to go pay to work in another country when you can find work locally that probably pays nearly the same? [editline]10th April 2017[/editline] [QUOTE=UK Bohemian;52073123]it is a good time to become a steel fitter.[/QUOTE] As somebody who works in a construction trade with a huge deficit of skilled/certified tradesmen, nothing is worse than working with an inconsistent mash of smart and exceedingly stupid group of new workers. The dumb guys fuck up a bunch of work and the guys who are good but don't know the trade will not get the guidance they need due to a comparative lack of skilled supervisors. Using an armada of unskilled labour absolutely hemorrhages material and man hours. This is not a simple case of "duh just hire more people to be steel fitters," It is very hard to find intrinsically competent and skilled construction workers and they will spend a very long time and lots of money sifting through the duds. Projects will fall behind, people will get injured or killed and only a small handful of guys will make the cut to be certified steel fitters.
[QUOTE=hypno-toad;52084276]Assuming the UK will not remain in the EEA, work visa runs you a lot of dough, and having to find temporary housing when you not longer have a right to live/work in the UK is not an easy or profitable work environment for European tradesman. Most of those skilled steel fitters that would have otherwise been on board will probably choose to remain in Europe where they don't have to lose the equivalent of a paycheck or two in order to just work at all. Why would you ditch your wife/kids to go pay to work in another country when you can find work locally that probably pays nearly the same? [editline]10th April 2017[/editline] As somebody who works in a construction trade with a huge deficit of skilled/certified tradesmen, nothing is worse than working with an inconsistent mash of smart and exceedingly stupid group of new workers. The dumb guys fuck up a bunch of work and the guys who are good but don't know the trade will not get the guidance they need due to a comparative lack of skilled supervisors. Using an armada of unskilled labour absolutely hemorrhages material and man hours. This is not a simple case of "duh just hire more people to be steel fitters," It is very hard to find intrinsically competent and skilled construction workers and they will spend a very long time and lots of money sifting through the duds. Projects will fall behind, people will get injured or killed and only a small handful of guys will make the cut to be certified steel fitters.[/QUOTE] the uk construction industry is peppered with cheap unskilled uncertified eastern european labour already a few more thousand steel fitters ain't gonna make much difference.
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