good news for teeside

[thomas michael]

hi cappy
just been reading about a new offshore wind turbine factory to be built by GE america with seven hundred and fifty provisional jobs available.
tom

[Tony Taylor]

hi cappy
just been reading about a new offshore wind turbine factory to be built by GE america with seven hundred and fifty provisional jobs available.
tom

Tom, if you are referring to the Teesside facility, it will be making the blades only.
Siemens has a place on Humberside for their kit, Dogger Bank project will be huge so should generate some further jobs. My son was working for a UK company as an engineer looking after the support vessels running personnel and kit out to various fields in UK, Germany and Holland; as we have discussed many times before, the crews operating those vessels were from wherever, cheapest got the jobs, notably there was a high proportion of Bulgarians some good, some hopeless.

[thomas michael]

hi tony #2
and good morning, it was a piece i picked up yesterday off the internet, and like any good news i thought it should be celebrated,
obviously you are more aware of its potential, being in the engineering field,and as your son was employed in the industry, anyway the piece i read stated that more investment was to follow,i hope it does for the future generations.
as for every nationality under the sun getting work from it before indiginous population, it is so wrong.
did read yesterday official figures for the immigration from europe into the uk, total five million, yes five million it came to light because of the liberal left had appealed against the goverment, against closing the gate for when those from europe whom are living here must by july make representation to the relative offices,to stay here, the liberal left lost priti patel won the case, and that is the only reason why the true extent of why we face the problems we do in this country came to light.
tom

[happy daze john in oz]

Power station employ up to a thousand workers, the coal mine that feed it a similar amount.

Wind and Solar need workers to build and install, but once in place only a few for basic maintenance.
500 temporary jobs created, 2,000 permenant jobs lost.

[Tony Taylor]

#3
Yes Tom, any jobs are good news, the Freeport at Teesside had to be a winner, the Tyne was also bidding but IMO was a non starter from the beginning as most of the potential sites were already developed or under development. Smiths Dock - houses, Brighams - houses, Middle docks proposed for housing and so it goes on; the only potential site is the old Amec yard now occupied by Smulders who build jackets for wind turbines, and Appledore in Jarrow over the river still ticking over although it looks like a parking place for tugs most of the time.

[Lewis McColl]

H&W were a big producer , certainly assembling wind turbines using the 556metre long building dock. It looked as if the jobs in H&W had been for a specific project in the Irish sea off the Cumbrian and Scottish coast?

I hope jobs on Teesside are permanent positions.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-39640674

[Keith Tindell]

On this little island the wind vane production site certainly helped with jobs. They are launched on to small powered barges and down the river Medina and across to Southampton for shipment. So we will see if the latest news holds good, kt


https://www.countypress.co.uk/news/1...ind-farm-2021/

[thomas michael]

hi tony #5
thats the way to look at it always positive, it always makes the difference.
tom