A windfarm being built 10 miles from a steelworks where 750 people have lost their jobs will be constructed from Chinese steel.
Workers at the Tata Steel plant in Port Talbot, south Wales, were told about the redundancies last week.
It has now emerged that 76 wind turbines being built just down the road will be imported from Asia.
The news comes just days after we revealed that Royal Navy ships and new trains are set to be built with foreign steel .
Lindsay Milsom, 62, who used to work at the Tata plant, said: “It doesn’t surprise me this company is getting its steel from China. These massive firms will always put profit first.
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“For the people losing their jobs at Tata it is a blow, but what are they supposed to do? They won’t be getting jobs here at the windfarm - there aren’t any for local people.”
Former steelworker David Lloyd, 54, said: “Using Chinese steel to make British products in Britain really isn’t on.
“If the right steel couldn’t have been made at Tata then they should have got it from somewhere else in the UK - even if it did cost slightly more.
“It would mean that at least we were helping our own economy in the long run.”
The Mirror is campaigning to save the steel industry , which is still reeling from the news steel firm Tata is axing 1,050 jobs at plants across the UK.
Last year, it shed 1,200 posts while SSI axed 2,200 staff in Redcar, Teesside.
Local business owner Darren Nichols added: “It’s ludicrous that they’ve sourced the steel from outside the UK in the middle of this massive crisis, caused partially by Chinese steel.
“It’s a massive slap in the face for Port Talbot, and something needs to be done to stop this happening again.”
The Pen Y Cymoedd - “Head of the Valleys” - project is being built on land owned by the government body Natural Resources Wales.
The £365m windfarm has promised to generate power to 200,000 homes as well as create 300 jobs but locals say there’s little evidence of new posts being created.
The scheme is managed by Swedish power company Vattenfall, while Siemens are providing the steel.
They have subcontracted two companies, one Chinese and one South Korean, to build the turbines.
A spokesman for Siemens said: “We source both British and Asian steel, and wherever possible, we seek to use local suppliers.
Source: Mirror UK