Unions accuse Tata of hypocrisy over Port Talbot closure ‘green’ claims

Unions accuse Tata of hypocrisy over Port Talbot closure ‘green’ claims

Owner says shutting Welsh blast furnaces will cut emissions, but it is opening a huge new one in India

Port Talbot closure highlights uncomfortable truth about clinging onto the past

Port Talbot workers have been left in the lurch, but the steelworks’ closure is part and parcel of progress, writes Paul Ormerod The decision by Tata Steel to shut the blast furnaces at the steelworks in Port Talbot, South Wales, has provoked outrage. Almost three quarters of the 4,000 workers at the plant will lose their jobs. On the same day that the news broke, the government announced a £500m subsidy for Tata’s £1.25bn proposed investment on…