What is clear is that the refinement and distribution of a significant portion of Scotland's oil supply has been allowed to become the plaything of one individual. The threat to kill off Grangemouth and several thousand jobs may be lifted this time, it will not go away, and instead will remain until market forces deem it necessary to bring it into play again. The plant is in thrall to a particularly toxic strain of unfettered capitalism. This eschews the concept of gradual sustainability in partnership with a workforce whose labours maintain the plant and the community beyond.
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