Tyneside’s New Industrial Revolution
A planning application to build a wind turbine manufacturing plant at the former Neptune shipyard, in Walker, was today being lodged with Newcastle city council. The factory will create an initial 500 jobs, with thousands more to follow when it kicks into action.
Nick Brown said: “This is the birth of a new industry on the Tyne. The Governments policy on tackling climate change is clear. We need to diversify our energy generation from carbon to renewable technologies like wind.”
Further details in today’s Chronicle here.