Net Zero Teesside and the local economy

Brick_Tamland

Brick_Tamland

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I have a friend who is a journalist for the European broadcaster Arté and she has been looking at the the Net Zero Teesside initiative with a view to producing a report on this.

She is planning to come to Middlesbrough later this year to create the report, possibly some interviews and has in the meantime been reading the various reports that have been produced by NZT and other news articles that are generally available online and items in the Gazette, Echo, etc.

She's mainly interested is reporting on the human aspect than in the technological one. How NZT is impacting the local economy, e.g. new opportunities for people living there with the development of low carbon technology and its role in potential regeneration of the 'Teesworks' area and the area more widely. I live away from the area these days and haven't really looked at it in close detail. I think there's NZT Power and Net Zero Teesside.

I wondered if anybody here either works for NZT or has some links to the companies in the cluster, or anything to share that might be of interest?
 
NorthumberlandBoro said:
Get on the blower to Ben Houchen.
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Yes, I did actually send my friend the link to his website and I had in my head that NZT was to do with the airport in some way, but it seems to be about decarboniziation and storing CO2 offshore, a new gas power plant. It sounds like work in progress over the next 3 years. I think the question she's interested in is whether this focus on the green economy is starting to have an impact on the area after, for example, Redcar steelworks was closed/demolished with the loss of many jobs.
 
HI

Please make your friend aware the Net Zero Teesside is an elaborate confidence trick perpetrated by Ben Houchen and the most lavishly funded PR machine the world has ever witnessed - the Fossil Fuel Lobby. It's no surprise that the world's largest oil companies, including BP, Eni, Equinor, Shell and Total are in on it.

northeastbylines.co.uk

The green con of Ben Houchen’s Emerald City

A closer look at some of the promises from Tees Valley Mayor. Ben Houchen
northeastbylines.co.uk northeastbylines.co.uk
 
Brick_Tamland said:
I have a friend who is a journalist for the European broadcaster Arté and she has been looking at the the Net Zero Teesside initiative with a view to producing a report on this.

She is planning to come to Middlesbrough later this year to create the report, possibly some interviews and has in the meantime been reading the various reports that have been produced by NZT and other news articles that are generally available online and items in the Gazette, Echo, etc.

She's mainly interested is reporting on the human aspect than in the technological one. How NZT is impacting the local economy, e.g. new opportunities for people living there with the development of low carbon technology and its role in potential regeneration of the 'Teesworks' area and the area more widely. I live away from the area these days and haven't really looked at it in close detail. I think there's NZT Power and Net Zero Teesside.

I wondered if anybody here either works for NZT or has some links to the companies in the cluster, or anything to share that might be of interest?
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I've done a bit on this but it was more on reindustrialisation and local skills sets, loss of steelworks and the blow that was for area (it was for the Ruth Sunderland article). Feel free to put in touch if I can help.
 
I don't think it's directly related but there's also the Redcar Hydrogen Community project which is a controversial attempt to convert the existing gas network into hydrogen.

I'm in the catchment area and there is a lot of objection locally. Personally I'm all for 'green' projects but this all just comes across as a huge amount of disruption to prove something doesn't work at scale.

Redcar Hydrogen
 
Teesside Crab Killer said:
HI

Please make your friend aware the Net Zero Teesside is an elaborate confidence trick perpetrated by Ben Houchen and the most lavishly funded PR machine the world has ever witnessed - the Fossil Fuel Lobby. It's no surprise that the world's largest oil companies, including BP, Eni, Equinor, Shell and Total are in on it.

northeastbylines.co.uk

The green con of Ben Houchen’s Emerald City

A closer look at some of the promises from Tees Valley Mayor. Ben Houchen
northeastbylines.co.uk northeastbylines.co.uk
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Yes, I noticed this in the list of backers that's on the NZT website and also wondered about how this fits in with FFL. I've mentioned that the airport, Teesworks and various other initiatives are connected to Houchen in some way and have alluded to the fact that there's plenty of scepticism to go with the public relations work on NZT, etc. That link is an interesting read!
 
Brick_Tamland said:
Yes, I did actually send my friend the link to his website and I had in my head that NZT was to do with the airport in some way, but it seems to be about decarboniziation and storing CO2 offshore, a new gas power plant. It sounds like work in progress over the next 3 years. I think the question she's interested in is whether this focus on the green economy is starting to have an impact on the area after, for example, Redcar steelworks was closed/demolished with the loss of many jobs.
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Great, thanks! I've sent you a DM about this.
 
Brick_Tamland said:
I have a friend who is a journalist for the European broadcaster Arté and she has been looking at the the Net Zero Teesside initiative with a view to producing a report on this.

She is planning to come to Middlesbrough later this year to create the report, possibly some interviews and has in the meantime been reading the various reports that have been produced by NZT and other news articles that are generally available online and items in the Gazette, Echo, etc.

She's mainly interested is reporting on the human aspect than in the technological one. How NZT is impacting the local economy, e.g. new opportunities for people living there with the development of low carbon technology and its role in potential regeneration of the 'Teesworks' area and the area more widely. I live away from the area these days and haven't really looked at it in close detail. I think there's NZT Power and Net Zero Teesside.

I wondered if anybody here either works for NZT or has some links to the companies in the cluster, or anything to share that might be of interest?
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BT

An interesting human story for a European journalist would be why did 75% of people in some wards in Teesside vote to leave the EU in 2016 i.e what made them so angry etc?
 
Redwurzel said:
BT

An interesting human story for a European journalist would be why did 75% of people in some wards in Teesside vote to leave the EU in 2016 i.e what made them so angry etc?
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I imagine that will come up, RW, but it's kind of old news now. She might be interested in the extent to which things have 'improved' for the local population over the last few years since Brexit and I guess that's what this piece is partly about but I may be wrong on that.
 
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