Britain still needs chemicals—no doubt there—but fret not, they’ll now be shipped in from some backwater where worker safety is a punchline and environmental oversight is a myth. Yes, high taxes and strangling regulation are real enough, and often cited with great moral outrage as the reason to pack up and flee. But let’s not kid ourselves—those are also the perfect alibi for decisions likely baked into the corporate roadmap years ago. You don’t just wake up one morning and build a new chemical plant; that’s a slow, costly dance. Walking away from sunk assets and shuttered factories isn’t trivial either—but here’s the twist: building fresh in deregulated paradise comes with EPC contracts, fat bonuses, and a shiny new PR story. And who doesn’t like a fresh round of handshakes and signatures?
Major Chemical Plant To Shut Due To High Energy Costs & Carbon Taxes