Scotland's final oil refinerie to shut -the lie for Miliband's web -job claims -is one factor?

Scotland's last oil refinery is to close with the loss of more than 400 jobs despite Keir Starrer and Ed Miliband's assurances and to lie to the claims about Net Zero jobs and a “fair transition”. The Telegraph has more.

When Sir Keir Starer visited days after his time after the nature of Prime Minister, he tried to calm the workers in the Grangemouth oil refinery by claiming that the rescue of her work was a top priority.

What has happened since then has been anything but comforting.

After learning in December 2023 that their work was endangered, the Petroineos refinery employees in Falkirk, who produced 80% of the petrol in Scotland – was with the fact that the location would be completed with the loss of more than 400 jobs.

The bosses accused the decision on the costs of operating the last refinery in Scotland and the Great Britain plan to ban the sale of new petrol and diesel cars by 2035.

Nevertheless, many employees were stunned. In addition to Sir Keir, both Anas Sarwar, the Scottish Labor leader, and Ed Miliband, the Minister of Energy, had strong assurances that they had wanted to save in Grangemouth since 1924.

“I think everyone was shocked that the announcement came when she did it,” says “Jack”, an employee who started as an apprentice at the Refinery and has been there for more than a decade.

The worker who does not want to give its real name adds: “The refinery has been around for more than 100 years and it is part of the community.

“There are people who are the third or fourth generation of their family who work there, others who have been there for 40 years.

“Many people here saw it as a job for life, and Labor had said that oil and gas would be there for a long time. So it was very worrying – and there is a lot of trouble and frustration. “

The episode has raised troubling questions about the repeated promise of the government of a “fair transition”, in which no workers in the oil and gas industry are left behind if Great Britain assumes fossil fuels in favor of green energy.

Sir Keir has repeatedly sworn that Labor will not repeat the “insensitive” decision of the Thatcher government in the 1980s to close the remaining coal memines without ensuring that the employees had alternative jobs.

“The effects of this can still be felt in communities across the country, and we never have to make this mistake again,” said the prime minister in a speech of 2023.

However, when Grangemouth is the first big test of this policy, the local population say that the government fails badly.

Cliff Bowen, a union convention for Unite, who has been working in Grangemouth under Ineos and the former BP of the location for 30 years, is angry that the decline of the refinery and the lack of measures to provide it with an alternative future.

What is particularly annoying to its members is that the closure does not even make up the global CO2 emissions of the total limestone, of which the United Kingdom is less than 1%.

Now Ineos and his partner Petrochina have announced that the location will become an import terminal for refined fuels from abroad.

“The reason why we had the final closure is that there was no political will to get behind it,” says Bowen.

“If you cannot receive a fair transition in Grangemouth, you have no chance elsewhere. No chance. Because what else are you looking for? We have the skills, we have geography, we are blessed with the resources.

“But what we will do is simple and absolutely everything that on the back of a campaign, this altar of Net Zero, which you seem to worship all in the government – without a plan for jobs.”

He adds: “Why should you continue to import from foreign regimes and base your economy into the destruction of your own communities?”