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Steel - Cameron has some explaining to do. They are all as bad as each other!
01-04-2016 9:36 AM
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Quote Britain blocked attempts to strengthen EU trade defenses against the imports of cheap Chinese steel that have devastated Tata’s operations in the UK, according to senior European officials. French and Italian officials said Britain had led opposition to an overhaul of anti-dumping rules that could have helped raise retaliatory tariffs in the EU to the tough levels seen in the US.The head of the European Steel Association, which represents every steelmaker on the continent, also said Britain had thwarted attempts to shut out cheap steel from China.
And apparently the head of Tata's steel operation in India has been warning the UK Government for weeks (with actual in person visits to London) that there is a significant problem. So where did the Governmental responsibility go Mr. Cameron?
Edit: Actually I am wrong. The Tata talks have been going on for the last twelve months!
Re: Steel - Cameron has some explaining to do. They are all as bad as each other!
01-04-2016 9:54 AM
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Re: Steel - Cameron has some explaining to do. They are all as bad as each other!
01-04-2016 9:57 AM
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Re: Steel - Cameron has some explaining to do. They are all as bad as each other!
01-04-2016 10:46 AM
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The fact is that if we are to follow the low carbon trajectory which all political parties agree on (virtue signalling again) then primary produced steel from blast furnaces does not have a place. The steel has got to be recycled to meet our needs and our green policies.
Also underinvestment over many years has left us with inefficient and dirty blast furnaces without the more recent refinements of carbon monoxide recycling and heat recycling. Also the units are too small to compete with the super size units in use in China.
But politicians tend to breeze through cognitive dissonance without a second thought hoping the public don't notice

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Re: Steel - Cameron has some explaining to do. They are all as bad as each other!
01-04-2016 11:56 AM
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Re: Steel - Cameron has some explaining to do. They are all as bad as each other!
01-04-2016 12:08 PM
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Re: Steel - Cameron has some explaining to do. They are all as bad as each other!
01-04-2016 12:25 PM
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Cameron is from a class of people who have never suffered real hardship and seem to think it's more important to support anyone other than the people of this country
Re: Steel - Cameron has some explaining to do. They are all as bad as each other!
01-04-2016 12:26 PM
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France 4p/kWh (give or take), UK 9p/kWh - with electricity being cited as a major factor in the cost of steel production... [Censored] (By Europe!) aren't we.
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Re: Steel - Cameron has some explaining to do. They are all as bad as each other!
01-04-2016 12:29 PM
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Quote from: nozzer Politicians should be cute enough to measure the public mood though. That's what they are supposed to be good at.
But that's exactly what they shouldn't be doing! You can't run industry based on public opinion. They have set up a national policy based on a green agenda as Oldjim's example indicates. They should now "man-up" an say that the loss of traditional industries making basic products is a consequence of these policies and got to be endured.
We've given up on coal and steelmaking is next. Of more consequence IMHO is what happens to our chemical industry which will be next in line.

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Re: Steel - Cameron has some explaining to do. They are all as bad as each other!
01-04-2016 12:30 PM
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Quote Britain’s Carbon Floor Price is a unilateral carbon tax at a floor price of £18 per tCO2. It is more than four times higher than the EU’s current carbon price which is less than £4 (€4.80 on 30 March 2016).
Re: Steel - Cameron has some explaining to do. They are all as bad as each other!
02-04-2016 9:52 PM
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