Local leaders have welcomed a major investment by Saudi Aramco of nearly one billion pounds into SABIC in Teesside, creating and safeguarding a thousand local jobs;

Redcar and Cleveland Borough Council has made the decision to prohibit the sale and release of sky lanterns - and helium balloons - on council-owned land;

...and the first stage of a transformational project is finally underway at the Cleveland Ironstone Mining Museum in Skinningrove, North Yorkshire.

 

Local leaders have welcomed a major investment by Saudi Aramco of nearly one billion pounds into SABIC in Teesside, creating and safeguarding a thousand local jobs.

The deal will see SABIC's parent company inject £850million into the Teesside business ending months of uncertainty for thousands of local workers and those in the firms supply chain.

The new funding will mean its hydrocarbon cracker at Wilton can be restarted. The cracker, known as the Olefins 6 plant, breaks down hydrocarbons into chemicals such as ethylene which are then used in a host of further processes, and has been shut down for over a year.

SABIC have also confirmed that they will explore converting the cracker to run electricity, making it the world's first cracker to be converted to run on electricity.

If successfully SABIC will convert all of their crackers around the globe.

 

Redcar and Cleveland Borough Council has made the decision to prohibit the sale and release of sky lanterns - and helium balloons - on council-owned land.

The use of snares to trap wild animals will be banned in the same way.

The decision comes following a farm fire caused by a drifting sky lantern close to Guisborough last year.

Whilst there is an obvious fire risk associated with sky lanterns, helium balloon releases also present a danger to pets and wildlife.

Entanglement in the balloons’ strings can cause injury and ingestion of the balloon material presents potentially fatal consequences, such as choking and internal organ damage.

 

The first stage of a transformational project is finally underway at the Cleveland Ironstone Mining Museum in Skinningrove, North Yorkshire.

Contractor Tolent has begun work on the first stage that includes a £1.3m contract to refurbish the existing building and the construction of a new extension, creating new exhibition and education spaces, retail area, toilets and archive store.

The independent museum celebrates the heritage of the ironstone mining industry, preserving and promoting the rich ironstone heritage of East Cleveland.

It unfortunately had to close in 2018 due to the roof of the museum's iconic Upcast building falling in, but once it reopens later next year, will provide an enhanced experience for new and returning visitors.


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