FREEPORTS
Waste lines
A DEAL agreed by a beaming investment minister Baroness (Poppy) Gustafsson this month shows how desperate the government is for investment in the freeports it inherited from Rishi Sunak and seems determined to persist with.
Gustafsson stood with the executive chairman of Nottingham-based Chinook Hydrogen, Rifat Chalabi, and his co-founder of the Chinook group, Tariq Alhaidary, to unveil the deal for a £200m hydrogen-generating waste recycling facility near Tilbury in Essex. Gustafsson pulled out her Labour stock phrase book and said: “This investment will not only deliver cutting-edge low-carbon hydrogen technology but create 150 new skilled jobs, putting more money in people’s pockets as part of our Plan for Change.”