{"id":397413,"date":"2025-08-24T10:53:41","date_gmt":"2025-08-24T08:53:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=397413"},"modified":"2025-08-24T10:53:43","modified_gmt":"2025-08-24T08:53:43","slug":"mad-milibands-british-net-zero-industrial-collapse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=397413","title":{"rendered":"Mad Miliband\u2019s British Net Zero Industrial Collapse"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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From Watts Up With That?<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Essay by<\/strong> Eric Worrall<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Another steel mill just entered administration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Government takes over Liberty Steel\u2019s South Yorkshire plants to protect 1,450 jobs<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Court ends Sanjeev Gupta\u2019s control of UK\u2019s third-largest steelworks as ministers seek to save 1,450 jobs<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The UK\u2019s third-largest steelworks has been placed under government control, creating an uncertain future for nearly 1,500 workers in Rotherham and Sheffield.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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Insolvency courts granted a compulsory winding up order sought by creditors owed hundreds of millions of pounds by Speciality Steels UK (SSUK) \u2013 part of the Liberty Steel metals empire of controversial tycoon Sanjeev Gupta.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company, which uses scrap metal to manufacture steel, will now be placed in the hands of the official receiver \u2013 a government appointed liquidator \u2013 and special managers from consultancy firm Teneo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The government has agreed to cover the ongoing wages and costs of the plant while a buyer is sought.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2026Read more:\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2025\/aug\/21\/government-control-liberty-steel-south-yorkshire-sanjeev-gupta<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

This takeover of Specialty Steels UK follows the government takeover of British Steel in June;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Why did the government take control of British Steel?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

17 June 2025
Jennifer Meierhans
Business reporter
Sean Seddon & Maia Davies<\/p>\n\n\n\n

British Steel has secured a \u00a3500m deal to make train tracks for Network Rail.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It comes two months after the UK government took control of British Steel\u2019s plant in Scunthorpe, Lincolnshire, to prevent it from closing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Who else produces steel in the UK?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

There are 1,160 businesses in the UK steel industry, directly supporting 40,000 other firms, according to government figures.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tata Steel at Port Talbot in Wales was once the UK\u2019s largest virgin steel producer but it turned off its blast furnace in September 2024, saying it was losing \u00a31.7m a day. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

An agreement with the UK government was reached which saw it commit \u00a3500m to help the company move to greener forms of steelmaking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Other steelmakers in the UK include Liberty Steel, Celsa, Marcegaglia and Outokumpu.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2026Read more: https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/c5y66y40kgpo<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Why do I think this is net zero related?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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British Steel backs calls for UK electricity price cuts<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

UK Steel today published a report on industrial electricity prices, demonstrating that a sizable gap remains between what UK steelmakers and their European competitors pay.

The trade body\u2019s report also sets out three recommendations to bring electricity prices in line with European counterparts. As the steel industry is aiming to electrify through investment in new additional electric arc furnaces, electricity prices become even more crucial to the industry\u2019s competitiveness, profitability, and future success.

Steel production is incredibly electro-intensive, and power charges are one of the largest barriers to sustainable steelmaking in the UK. With proposed steel industry switches to electric arc furnaces, it is expected the sector\u2019s electricity consumption will roughly double.

The report finds that UK steel producers pay up to 50% more than competitors in France and Germany, adding \u00a337-million to UK steel electricity costs.<\/strong> The price disparity is predominantly driven by higher UK wholesale costs and partly greater network charges.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2026Read more: https:\/\/britishsteel.co.uk\/news\/british-steel-backs-calls-for-uk-electricity-price-cuts\/<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

The sad part of this is the steel mill which just went into administration is next door to 6.5 billion cubic ft of gas<\/a>, a hundred miles away in Lancashire. Steel plants would have no problem running on cheap gas. But nobody is allowed to touch that Lancashire gas because accessing that gas would require hydraulic fracking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Imagine having an entire collapsing industrial sector which could be saved by a hundred miles of pipeline and a few gas wells, but nobody is willing to act to make it happen. Because that is the reality in today\u2019s Britain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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