{"id":279011,"date":"2023-09-16T15:09:13","date_gmt":"2023-09-16T13:09:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=279011"},"modified":"2023-09-16T15:09:30","modified_gmt":"2023-09-16T13:09:30","slug":"steel-workers-facing-job-losses-under-500-million-net-zero-subsidy-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=279011","title":{"rendered":"Steel workers facing job losses under \u00a3500 million Net Zero subsidy\u00a0plan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Thousands of workers at Britain\u2019s biggest steel mill are facing redundancy under a taxpayer-funded net zero plan.<\/mark><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tata Steel will be given \u00a3500m of taxpayer cash to fund its switch to net zero at its Port Talbot steelworks.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Indian conglomerate is expected to invest \u00a31.25bn in retooling the site to produce \u201cgreener\u201d steel, which ministers said will reduce the UK\u2019s entire carbon emissions by around 1.5pc.
However, the new processes will require fewer jobs and Tata will consult on a restructuring that could lead to 3,000 redundancies<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Unite union described the plans as a \u201cdisgrace\u201d and vowed to fight them. TUC general secretary Paul Nowak said it was a \u201cdevastating blow for workers at Port Talbot and the opposite of a just transition\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Tata has been in talks with the Government for months about state aid to help switch the plant\u2019s two coal-fired blast furnaces to electric arc versions that can run on zero-carbon electricity<\/em>.
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If electric arc furnaces were the most efficient way of making steel, Port Talbot would already be investing in them, without the need for subsidies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The reality is that arc furnaces use huge amounts of electricity, and at current prices are not as economical as blast furnaces, particularly as the coke used in the latter process provides coke gas, which is used in other parts of the steel works.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There is a further issue \u2013 arc furnaces rely on steel scrap and pig iron. But there is only a limited supply of scrap, and the pig iron will have to be sourced from other steel mills, which use blast furnaces anyway. In other words there is only an illusion of emission cuts, the likelihood being that pig iron will simply be imported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A worker in the blast furnace at Tata Steel’s Port Talbot plant\u00a0CREDIT: GEOFF CADDICK\/AFP via Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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