Unions welcome new clean energy investment in West Cumbria
The Sellafield trade unions, which includes Prospect, have published the following statement on the news that land is being released at Moorside for clean energy investment.
Sellafield trade unions (GMB, Prospect and Unite) welcome this announcement that at least 200 acres of land at Moorside will be released for new clean energy investment.
It is vital that the clean energy mission creates and sustains good, unionised jobs in the communities that most need them. West Cumbria needs investment, and the fact that Moorside is already a nuclear licensed site adjacent to Sellafield with a skills base, grid connection, and supply chain that are ready to go, makes it a great choice for further development.
This decision has been long in the making and we must now proceed at pace, with full involvement of unions and the community, to make the most of it.
