2025-04-23
The last working blast-furnace in the UK is going down.
Can nothing be done to save it?
Short of shipping it to China (where cheap coal is abundant) as a free gift, probably not.
After all, it requires coking coal that it could have had locally from a proposed mine in Whitehaven - but that conflicted with the Government's Net Zero policy so it couldn't.
So instead of giving it a viable source of supply, the government in its infinite wisdom sought to give the Chinese owners a £500m bung (for a totally impracticable "conversion to green energy") if they would only take the problem off its hands, an offer which the Chinese, being sensible businessmen (whether also CCP spies or not), could plainly see wouldn't make the business viable.
Read the full-in-your-face story of blatant economic vandalism here.
