LETTER: Our region can power the green revolution plans
A reader discusses wind power.
No other European country has the equivalent wind capacity or potential of the UK.
It is obvious to anybody who drives across The Black Country and Darlaston home of Rubery Owen, Ductile Wesson and Charles Richards & Son that a skill hungry workforce is waiting to be tapped.
Governments Green Industrial Revolution bid to quadruple the UK wind power capacity needs a £50 billion investment. Why as is feared, is only £20 billion likely to go to the UK? This is unacceptable.
Buying abroad and undermines the Governments own Regional 'levelling up' Regional and Environmental policies.
Scandinavian and German companies have expertise but we need to put this right and win over and convert those who doubt Green policies and buying British.
Increasing 10 gigawatts of offshore wind capacity to 40 gigawatts represent a huge opportunity to our innovation and manufacturing in our Region.
The UK is a global pioneer in offshore wind power but we remain a junior player when.it comes to Green manufacturing.
It is time to repower our local skills, innovation and manufacturing in The Black Country and Darlaston in particular.
Stop 'off shoring', new jobs and investment money abroad. We can make offshore wind turbines just as we once made aviation engines, racing cars and so much more. We know the 'nuts and bolts' of innovation and both iron and steel production and local manufacture.
The winds of change in our country's recent fortune and Green Industrial Revolution can be powered in The Black Country and Darlaston.
Cllr Douglas James, Walsall
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