After days expensively moored awaiting party in its honour, Ineos ship carrying shale gas from US fails to make entrance
There are some things even a billionaire petrochemicals baron can’t control.
Jim Ratcliffe, the founder-chairman of Anglo-Swiss firm Ineos, had carefully choreographed the arrival of the company’s first shipment of shale gas from the US. Its planned arrival in Scotland was the culmination of a $2bn (£1.5bn) investment designed to make its loss-making Grangemouth plant profitable again, not to mention a high-profile platform to lobby publicly for Britain to launch a fracking revolution.
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Source: Guardian Environment