Workers have been occupying one of the plants, on the Isle of Wight, UK, since the evening of 20 July in protest against its planned closure at the end of the month. The protestors, trade unions and environmental campaign groups and are calling for the government to find a buyer for the factory or nationalise it.
A spokesman for the government's Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) denied that the plant closure marks a set back for its ambitious plans to increase the UK’s wind production, saying that Vestas’ decision was based on shifting its manufacturing capacity to the US market where most of the production from the Isle of Wight is sold.
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