Bradwell B Nuclear Power Station

Local English /British workers should be used first ..
most of the building sites now are majority Eastern European .. for the cheapness
 
Hmm... Don't see cabin crew and pilots having a natural employment affinity with major civil engineering projects? Companies of all sorts find it hard to get staff from the UK to work in "trades", and have to resort to Eastern Europeans.
 
Companies of all sorts find they can get labour cheaper from Eastern Europe .. Their “day rate “ is a lot less .. living five to a house etc ..
 
Go on any building site in london and see if any one is getting more than £100 a day .. and speaks English ...
you’ve got one “ gang leader “ who speaks the lingo and the rest are fresh out of ribs from France ..
 
Cavalierbond said:
Go on any building site in london and see if any one is getting more than £100 a day .. and speaks English ...
you’ve got one “ gang leader “ who speaks the lingo and the rest are fresh out of ribs from France ..
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Not sure what minimum wage is now, I think it is about £10 an hour, so if they are getting £100 and not doing more than 10 hours work a day, that is OK then .... What are you fussing about? Is it racism?
 
PeterWright said:
I think the proposers of Bradwell B are right to focus on the disruption to local life during construction as a key hurdle that they will need to overcome to get consent for the installation. The numbers sound alarming, but aren't all that different from the building of Sizewell B. Again they have learned from te Sizewell project in proposing to use sea won ballast, pumped ashore and washed on site, rather than the road delivered ballst used for the first Bradwell power station. The upriver marine terminal is for delivery of the large components by sea, as was done for the first Bradwell and Sizewell B. These options actually increase the building cost, but reducethe impact on the local community. I believe more work is needed to further reduce and mitigate that impact.

It was not very long ago that I had to break the news of Bradwell Power station's closure to Maldon District Council. Their immediate response was to ask for money to compensate the district for loss of employment opportunities - this project will bring more job opportunities back to the Dengie.

The UK needs power generation and at least a proportion of it needs to be reliable, not subject to the vagaries of wind or sunshine. Even James Lovelock, proponent of the Gaia hypothesis, in his later years came to realise that, with the relentlessly increasing population, nuclear power was the best option for reliable electricity generation.

I lived through the fifties, when UK electricity supply was pretty unreliable because demand far outstripped supply, but life was organised to cope with frequent power cuts (although the common heating system, coal fires had horrendous pollution consequences). Today, imagine how many days a modern town could survive without telephones (and computers) working, without sewage being pumped away each time you flush, without the water arriving to drink. wash in or flush. All these sevices today, rely on electricity to run pumps and control systems. Most governments of developed countries reckon 2 to 3 days of power cut will bring rioting and looting - do you want to go there? If not, what alternative for the reliable, available 24 hours per day, part of ourelectricity generation system. Currently the biggest contribution to national power production is burning gas.

Peter
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Thank you for a most informative post.
 
Cavalierbond said:
My point is that I hope the new power station uses local British labour and “ our society benefits it ..
nothing racist about that ... at all
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All the container cranes at the Port of Felixstowe have been supplied by Zhenhua Port Machinery Company of Shanghai and assembled and commissioned on site by Chinese workers, as was the gantry crane used in the building of the aircraft carriers Queen Elizabeth and Prince of Wales.

I suggest you don’t worry about it.
 
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Kukri said:
All the container cranes at the Port of Felixstowe have been supplied by Zhenhua Port Machinery Company of Shanghai and assembled and commissioned on site by Chinese workers, as was the gantry crâne used in the building of the aircraft carriers Queen Elizabeth and Prince of Wales.

I suggest you don’t worry about it.
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I suppose we must be good at something. The Ipswich Girls school at Woolverstone was
purchased by Swiss corporation bankers backed by China Wanda Group just a few years ago.
 
I didn’t say that .. British local people should benefit first .. that’s how society should grow ..
I’m sure you would have something to say if mersea had a large influx of “ foreigners “
 
Cavalierbond said:
I didn’t say that .. British local people should benefit first .. that’s how society should grow ..
I’m sure you would have something to say if mersea had a large influx of “ foreigners “
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Well might be an idea if the sort of No Mans Land area that surrounds the new build could be designated as the local Traveller Site for the whole of the county Of Essex plus the East London overspill, that would (will) settle them Essex Mens appitite for Foreigners in their midst , eh ?
 
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