Owners of BiFab yards file for administration
Uncertainty over the construction sites in Fife and Lewis has increased greatly in recent weeks
Last updated 3rd Dec 2020
The owners of the Bifab yards have filed for administration.
The Canadian-owned company was plunged into crisis when it failed to win a contract for work on wind turbines.
It's also lost Government funding with rules around state aid being blamed.
Joint Trade Union Secretaries Gary Smith and Pat Rafferty said: "BiFab’s administration exposes the myth of Scotland’s renewables revolution as well as a decade of political hypocrisy and failure, in Scotland and the rest of the UK.
“The workers and communities dependent on these yards have fought so hard for a future and everyone was hoping that 2021 would finally be the turning point.
“Shamefully the Scottish Government has buried these hopes just in time for Christmas and they have worked together with UK Government in doing so.
“A decade on from the promise of a ‘Saudi Arabia of renewables’ and 28,000 full time jobs in offshore wind manufacturing, we’ve been left with industrial ruins in Fife and Lewis.”
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