More than 140,000 jobs ‘at risk’ without a green plan for chemicals industry
A worker at Ferrybridge C Power Station in West Yorkshire, before the plant's cooling towers are demolished in October, September 2019
BRITAIN stands to lose a staggering 140,000 jobs in the chemicals industry in the long term without a plan to become fossil-fuel free, an expert report warns today.
Bearing a grim resemblance to nearly 3,000 planned job losses in Port Talbot as Tata Steel switches to electric-arc technology, policy makers are said to be failing to plan for the chemical sector’s decarbonisation.
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