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We need guarantees on how many jobs this investment funded by consumers will create in the UK and locally in Sussex."
Gary Smith adds: "If Rampion is a rerun of Thames Array the danger that the only things communities paying for this project are higher energy bills.
Rampion must not be a rerun of Thames Array, one of the world’s largest wind farms. There the turbines and much of the Infrastructure was manufactured aboard and boats used to float the turbines into position were from the continent with a workforce also mainly from the continent.
If Government and the energy industry are serious about developing green jobs in the UK they will not allow this to happen again.
The money to fund green energy comes from the bills of UK consumers who have no choice in the matter. They have every right to expect that the government that decreed that they should pay for green energy has an industrial strategy in place to promote decent jobs for a new generation now facing prospects of precarious employment.
Government leaving the supply chain to corporations which decide to spend the money importing much of the technology from overseas is completely out of order and not acceptable.”
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