How US Tariffs deal could shut a Redcar bioethanol plant down

Redwurzel

Redwurzel

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BBC are reporting how a plant producing bioethanol in Redcar can employs 100 people directly and 3000 indirectly wil close if the 19% tariffs on US imports are lifted.

This shows how Government can suddenly change the rules within days on iinvestments that take years to develop.

Bioethanol is a chemical additive produced from food crops that is added to fuel for vehicles to make them greener.

The production of which has been UK Governments policy for the last 25 years.

UK Government policies have made UK electricity the most expensive in the World.

Every day we have heard Green manaufacturing jobs is the big industrial goal of all UK Governments.

So lets see what is going to hppen this week for the current Governement and local MPs on this as its politicians who have played games with short term meddling in tariffs.

My solution would be to give the UK ethanol producers the same energy deal they give pensioners e,g. we will pay 25% to 50% of your electricity bills and allow 12 months transition on tariffs and do it this week if they are chaging tariffs this week.

I am sure some posters on here know this industry and know alot more than me, but who ever you are we need to fight to keep our ethanol industry going. This is what people should be on the strreet protesting about it.

www.bbc.co.uk

US deal may force Redcar biofuel plant to close, Ensus warns

Ensus says the recent UK-US tariff deal "fundamentally undermined its business position".
www.bbc.co.uk www.bbc.co.uk
 
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The knock on effect of the closure of Ensus, will be massive for the area and Wilton site, With Sabic already looking like it going, with Ensus gone the Utilities provided onsite will have no end user or very few, The C02 required in this country will also be lost, we will become a mass importer of almost everything, sad times for this area
 
Lots of publicity about the CO2 situation a few years ago when people thought there would be a shortage of fizzy drinks. Since then Billingham’s ( and the UK’s) last large scale Ammonia plant has closed, which produced large amounts of the gas as a by product of the process, along now with the possibility of 2 other large CO2 suppliers look like going down, Ensus being one of them. This might get the the story of the demise of Uk Chemical manufacturing back in the news, for possibly the wrong reasons. It’s as big a story as the Steel industry closures, but one which has received very little coverage.
 
Chemicalworker said:
Ensus has always been on the edge
It needs everything to be in its favour to keep it profitable any hit and it can’t manage
It was shut for about 2 years at one point
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Not true that it has always been on the edge.
What the government doesnt know is Ensus take the majority of the steam from SCUK and if they shutdown then the SCUK steam supply is not viable putting all Wilton companies at risk because without steam supply companies cannot run safely. Installing individual steam boilers will cost millions for each business.
I think the government will save ensus somehow though because of the loss of CO2
 
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