The closure of the Grangemouth oil refinery in Scotland could result in the loss of hundreds of highly skilled engineering apprenticeships, impacting the country's skills base and future job creation in green energy technology.
Scotland will lose hundreds of highly skilled engineering apprenticeships if the Grangemouth oil refinery closes.
“The site is effectively a national training base which recruits every year, so closure would be a major blow to Scotland’s engineering skills, but this doesn’t seem to be a consideration for the government. “The training in high-skilled jobs that are available offshore, for example, are not taught offshore. The training is onshore, at places like Grangemouth, so closing the refinery will impact on the ability of Scottish workers to get well paid offshore jobs.”
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The Sunday Mail revealed in March the UK Government has failed to take action to secure a future for the massive plant near Falkirk – while providing a £600million loan guarantee to Ineos for a chemicals site in Antwerp, Belgium.
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