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The UK Government cannot guarantee a new job for every worker who could be laid off when the Grangemouth refinery closes next year, the Scottish Secretary has said.
Unite general secretary Sharon Graham and Scottish secretary Derek Thomson both called for action from ministers at Westminster and Holyrood.
Politicians and trade unions have hit out at the decision to close the refinery. ‘Grown-up debate’ needed about future of Grangemouth, says Petroineos boss Skip to main content
Grangemouth Refinery is an oil refinery complex located on the Firth of Forth in Grangemouth, Scotland, currently operated by Petroineos. It is the only operating crude oil refinery in Scotland and currently one of the six remaining refineries in the UK. [ 1 ]
The 2009 Lindsey Oil Refinery strikes were a series of wildcat strikes that affected the energy industry in the United Kingdom in 2009. The action involved workers at around a dozen energy sites across the UK who walked out in support of other British workers at the Total's Lindsey Oil Refinery. The Lindsey Oil Refinery construction workers ...
The synthetic ethanol contained in it has been produced for more than 40 years at Grangemouth. Most of the vast output - 226m litres per year, enough to fill 90 Olympic swimming pools - goes into ...
Unite also said oil and gas workers risk becoming ‘the coal miners of our generation’ without action to ensure sustainable jobs.
The refinery cost £30m. The neighbouring refinery also cost £30m. [14] It was officially opened on Friday 28 June 1968 by the Labour Minister of Power, Ray Gunter. [15] It was named after the former Lindsey pre-1974 local government area of Lincolnshire. The refinery entered service in May 1968 as a joint project between Total and Fina.