Comment by mytailorisrich
10 hours ago
Chinese company Ming Yang was planning to invest 1+ billion to build a factory in Scotland. They were going to be the local competition. UK government has just officially refused to approve it. This is a government decision based on politics and lobbying from other interests (US gov and EU competitors) and yet another U-turn for the government (as apparently gov was initially keen...).
I don't want a Chinese company to own 1 billion pounds of energy infrastructure in Scotland.
couldnt you do the same thing china does? force them to have a local partner that ends up owning it?
Because?...
This would have been a factory to produce wind turbines, which would have benefited the country. And I thought net-zero was a priority.
Essentially all solar panels are made in China. All our car factories are foreign-owned, and even nuclear power plants are.