“Just look at the assets. Access to the North Sea. A deep sea port. An effective grid connection. Infrastructure links to the northeast. A strategic location midway between Scotland’s two major cities. World-class universities. A skills pipeline for the future.”
Somebody must have pointed to a map and showed him where Grangemouth is.
https://www.thenational.scot/news/24956661.keir-starmer-pledges-200-million-grangemouth/
Gawd. Labour are very cheap to buy - even the Tories (and in that little nasty coterie, the Hamilton's) asked for more money.
LABOUR have been presented with a "hospitality season ticket” for Manchester United after pledging £1 billion to INEOS chairman Jim Ratcliffe to redevelop Old Trafford while he closes the refinery.
https://www.thenational.scot/news/24932901.labour-get-season-ticket-backing-man-u-scottish-workers/
The companies owned by Jim #Ratcliffe- who's currently closing down #Grangemouth- are in trouble. Rating agencies are raising red flags over their debts
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/feb/12/red-flags-debts-sir-jim-ratcliffe-ineos-chemicals-empire-ratings-agencies-downgrade
Ouch!
Labour's chief in North Britain handed a dull yin.
The collective fear of employers, the government and the trade unions alike is that accelerating job losses, collapsing wages and general social stress may trigger an escalation of class tensions which the trade unions will be unable to control.
Scotland’s pseudo-left groups cover for “just transition” fraud at #Grangemouth refinery threatened with closure
Tune in at 12:00 midday for this week's #FullScottish with Douglas MacKenzie and guests, Paul McLennan MSP and Sandra White discussing #Ukraine, #Gaza, winter fuel payments, #Grangemouth, #indyref 10th anniversary and more.
www.broadcastingscotland.scot/full-scottis...
Full Scottish - 15/09/2024 - B...
First the pensioners, now Grangemouth. Labour only answers to the likes of Rupert Murdoch.
The magnificent 30m high Kelpies, the world's largest equine sculptures, created in 2013 by Andy Scott and standing close to the Forth and Clyde Canal and the M9 motorway on the edge of Grangemouth. More pics and info: https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/falkirk/kelpies/index.html
https://youtu.be/e0f-gwU5dhI?si=UlZ36jwppLHL0gdN
La meva #CançóDelDia per al dijous 4 de juliol és aquesta de l'#ElizabethFraser #Grangemouth #DreamPop #PostPunk 
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Hanging out at Scottish East District League athletics in Grangemouth today, waiting for discus to start. Might be the last year here as Grangemouth stadium (like many other Scottish sporting facilities) is threatened with closure.
The Ineos Petrochemical plant at Grangemouth as seen from Culross.
The plant could close in 2025.
Ciaradh aig Ionad-Ola Inbhir Ghrainnse. Dìreach a' ghrian a tha dol fodha an-seo?
Sunset over the Grangemouth Petrochemical complex. How long will it be here?
Finally ran up Webster Avenue for the view across to Grangemouth and home. Realistically there's one more day I can go for a run here before we move out of the house, but that'll do me, lovely day for it. #Carron #grangemouth
Interesting to read that the end of the #Grangemouth #oil refinery will likely make the UK dependent on refineries in #Europe. Another #Brexit dividend!
Looks like the #Grangemouth #oil refinery (one of the oldest oil industry sites in the world) will close. Sad that the owner, Jim #Ratcliffe, made no attempt to follow market trends and adapt to a post #carbon world. No doubt he'll leave it up to the state to deal with the problems he's leaving behind
#climate
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-business-67500411
The closure of #Grangemouth would further reduce #refining capacity in the UK.
As refining has been (in the past) a particular bottleneck in #petrol supply, the move for it to become an import processing plant for #LNG and also to some extent an exporter of LNG-derivitives, may shift the landscape of #energy distribution in the UK.
The Q. is whether this is a problem for 'energy security', a welcome kick towards the transition to #electricvehicles or just the consequence of foreign ownership?
#Aberdeen and indeed #Grangemouth and other Scottish communities shackled to oil could learn a lot from this example. Everyone in Aberdeen knows oil is dead, but how do we agree on a just transition to #actualZero ?
#Ineos accused of falsifying flaring record
The #FossilFuel multinational, Ineos, has been accused of falsifying a record and flaring #gas from a #chemical plant at #Grangemouth in breach of multiple #pollution rules, The Ferret can reveal.
In July the #Scottish #Environment Protection Agency (#Sepa) served the company with a final warning letter alleging that a “deliberate deviation of procedures”
https://theferret.scot/ineos-accused-falsifying-flaring-record/
Climate Camp wraps up after Ineos confrontation
Following well-organised protests at the site of Scotland's biggest polluter the camp at Kinneil, Grangemouth has been tidied away and legal support is now ongoing for nine people who were detained over the weekend.
The camp was sited just a mile away from Ineos' headquarters to the east of Grangemouth, a
https://freedomnews.org.uk/2023/07/19/climate-camp-wraps-up-after-ineos-confrontation/
#ClimateCamp #Grangemouth #Ineos #Oil #Scotland
The magnificent 30m high Kelpies, the world's largest equine sculptures, created in 2013 by Andy Scott and standing close to the Forth and Clyde Canal and the M9 motorway on the edge of Grangemouth. More pics and info: https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/falkirk/kelpies/index.html
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