Oneball
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GeoffCapes
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I saw that on the news. They bloke said it was the big suppliers. The smaller local ones should be fine.
Which is just as well as we get ours from a local farm.
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Stanlow oil refinery ‘on brink of collapse’ as crisis talks continue
Essar Energy locked in negotiations with HMRC over VAT payment delayed because of pandemic
www.theguardian.com
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We'll have beef.
sionie1
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SHELL did well then to sell it for $1.6 Billion back in the early 2000'sStanlow oil refinery ‘on brink of collapse’ as crisis talks continue
Essar Energy locked in negotiations with HMRC over VAT payment delayed because of pandemic
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I thought the general view is that the media is largely to blame for spreading this kind of fear-inducing 'information'?
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Yes I got that email too...don't cancel your direct debit....oops. Did that before Avro went bust, I'm not paying £70 a month when I'm £240 in credit and I actually only use £20 a month during summer.
Lets see what our 8 armed friends can deal us with.
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Done a few projects at stanlow, last time just a couple of years ago. Indians have just run it into the ground, hardly any investment. Many, many parts of it, in my opinion, are downright dangerous now, due to lack of maintenance.
I’m surprised that A, it’s still allowed to operate, and B, it’s not blown up yet.
sionie1
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Funny you should say that, I drive past on a regular basis and thought some of it was redundant as it looked so tatty.
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Surely not all 1.3 billion of them.
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No. I was just surprised to see another example of it being repeated.
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My first summer job was at Stanlow, Dad's company specialised in chemical plant pipework, as a office junior which basically meant I sat in the office (portacabin) and transcribed the mens clocking in times from their cards to the payroll submission sheets which took about an hour a day the rest of the time was spent reading whatever magazines and papers the men had brought in that day, I learnt a lot.
The best bit though was union minimum pay regulations which meant I earned more in a week than most of my mates did all summer doing their part-time jobs.
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Haha, yes it was somewhat of a sweeping generalisation.
To be fair, the bit that did actually partly blow up about 3 years ago, a chemical area called the SHOP plant, is the only bit Shell had kept for themselves, as it was a real money maker, a few 100 million per year I think someone told me.
Even so, that was run on a shoestring too despite the profits. The whole area is shut down now, I would guess once HSE saw what a mess the rest of it was in too on top of the explosion. Pity they didn’t spend some of the profits on maintenance…..