Outrage as jobs at Scotland's biggest offshore wind project go to China

[Elderberry]

MSN by Paul Hutcheon 12/19/2019

Supply chain jobs at the country’s biggest offshore wind farm project are being lost to China.

Skilled work on Seagreen in the Firth of Forth will be carried out overseas, fuelling criticism of

the so-called “green jobs revolution” in Scotland.

Gary Smith, Scotland secretary of the GMB trade union, said: “This would be the death knell for any meaningful offshore wind manufacturing industry in Scotland – an utter scandal and a national disgrace.”

In 2010, the Scottish Government estimated that the offshore wind sector could create 28,000 direct jobs and lead to £7.1billion of investment.

Former First Minister Alex Salmond also claimed the Pentland Firth could become the “Saudi Arabia of marine power”. But Scotland missed out on hundreds of millions of pounds of work to foreign firms in the creation of the £2billion Neart Na Gaoithe offshore wind farm.

More: https://www.msn.com/en-gb/money/other/outrage-as-jobs-at-scotlands-biggest-offshore-wind-project-go-to-china/ar-BBY96Rx

[libertybele]

It is very unfortunate.  I don't know if things are changing under Trump with his most recent negotiations, but reports last year show U.S. manufacturing jobs going to China


https://www.marketwatch.com/story/china-really-is-to-blame-for-millions-of-lost-us-manufacturing-jobs-new-study-finds-2018-05-14