Wyn Jones - Revision history

Miriam Rose at 23:13, 21 February 2012

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Dan Nemenyi at 12:31, 22 August 2011

2011-08-22T12:31:05Z

Melissa Jones: retired as Alcan boss

2011-07-19T14:04:15Z

retired as Alcan boss

Miriam Rose: /* View on climate change and industry */

2010-07-15T14:43:45Z

View on climate change and industry

Miriam Rose: /* Notes */

2010-07-09T16:06:24Z

Notes

Miriam Rose at 15:47, 9 July 2010

2010-07-09T15:47:09Z

Miriam Rose: /* View on climate change and industry */

2010-05-17T13:21:16Z

View on climate change and industry

Miriam Rose at 13:19, 17 May 2010

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Miriam Rose: /* View on climate change and industry */

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View on climate change and industry

Miriam Rose: /* View on climate change and industry */

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-'''Wyn Jones''' is the former managing director of [[Alcan]] Aluminium UK (Now [[Rio Tinto Alcan]] UK) (2000-2010).<ref> by Peter McCusker, [http://www.nebusiness.co.uk/business-news/latest-business-news/2010/07/29/alcan-boss-wyn-jones-stands-down-51140-26952460/ Alcan boss Wyn Jones stands down], Jul 29 2010, The Journal, accessed 19 July 2010. </ref>  He is also Vice President of the [[Aluminium Federation]]. In 2004 he was awarded an OBE for 30 years service in the Aluminium industry.<ref>Peter McCusker,Aug 26 2008 [http://www.nebusiness.co.uk/business-news/interviews-with-business-people/2008/08/26/defender-of-jobs-foresees-new-battle-51140-21603807/ Defender of jobs foresees new battle] The Journal. Accessed 16/05/10</ref> <ref>ALFED, [http://www.alfed.org.uk/page.asp?node=34&sec=Annual_Reports Annual Report 2009] Accessed 07/04/10</ref>
+'''Wyn Jones''' is the former managing director of [[Alcan]] Aluminium UK (Now [[Rio Tinto Alcan]] UK) (2000-2010).<ref> by Peter McCusker, [http://www.nebusiness.co.uk/business-news/latest-business-news/2010/07/29/alcan-boss-wyn-jones-stands-down-51140-26952460/ Alcan boss Wyn Jones stands down], Jul 29 2010, The Journal, accessed 19 July 2010. </ref>  He was also Vice President of the [[Aluminium Federation]] in 2010. In 2004 he was awarded an OBE for 30 years service in the Aluminium industry.<ref>Peter McCusker,Aug 26 2008 [http://www.nebusiness.co.uk/business-news/interviews-with-business-people/2008/08/26/defender-of-jobs-foresees-new-battle-51140-21603807/ Defender of jobs foresees new battle] The Journal. Accessed 16/05/10</ref> <ref>ALFED, [http://www.alfed.org.uk/page.asp?node=34&sec=Annual_Reports Annual Report 2009] Accessed 07/04/10</ref>
 During his time as managing director of [[Alcan]] Aluminium UK he was head of Lynemouth primary smelter and its coal power station, as well as the Lochaber smelter in Fort William, Scotland, and its two associated hydro-power stations<ref>Peter McCusker,Aug 26 2008 [http://www.nebusiness.co.uk/business-news/interviews-with-business-people/2008/08/26/defender-of-jobs-foresees-new-battle-51140-21603807/ Defender of jobs foresees new battle] The Journal. Accessed 16/05/10</ref>.
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	'''Wyn Jones''' is the former managing director of [[Alcan]] Aluminium UK (Now [[Rio Tinto Alcan]] UK) (2000-2010).<ref> by Peter McCusker, [http://www.nebusiness.co.uk/business-news/latest-business-news/2010/07/29/alcan-boss-wyn-jones-stands-down-51140-26952460/ Alcan boss Wyn Jones stands down], Jul 29 2010, The Journal, accessed 19 July 2010. </ref> He is also Vice President of the [[Aluminium Federation]]. In 2004 he was awarded an OBE for 30 years service in the Aluminium industry.<ref>Peter McCusker,Aug 26 2008 [http://www.nebusiness.co.uk/business-news/interviews-with-business-people/2008/08/26/defender-of-jobs-foresees-new-battle-51140-21603807/ Defender of jobs foresees new battle] The Journal. Accessed 16/05/10</ref> <ref>ALFED, [http://www.alfed.org.uk/page.asp?node=34&sec=Annual_Reports Annual Report 2009] Accessed 07/04/10</ref>		'''Wyn Jones''' is the former managing director of [[Alcan]] Aluminium UK (Now [[Rio Tinto Alcan]] UK) (2000-2010).<ref> by Peter McCusker, [http://www.nebusiness.co.uk/business-news/latest-business-news/2010/07/29/alcan-boss-wyn-jones-stands-down-51140-26952460/ Alcan boss Wyn Jones stands down], Jul 29 2010, The Journal, accessed 19 July 2010. </ref> He is also Vice President of the [[Aluminium Federation]]. In 2004 he was awarded an OBE for 30 years service in the Aluminium industry.<ref>Peter McCusker,Aug 26 2008 [http://www.nebusiness.co.uk/business-news/interviews-with-business-people/2008/08/26/defender-of-jobs-foresees-new-battle-51140-21603807/ Defender of jobs foresees new battle] The Journal. Accessed 16/05/10</ref> <ref>ALFED, [http://www.alfed.org.uk/page.asp?node=34&sec=Annual_Reports Annual Report 2009] Accessed 07/04/10</ref>

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-Wyn Jones is Managing director of [[Alcan]] Aluminium UK (Now [[Rio Tinto Alcan]] UK). He is also Vice President of the [[Aluminium Federation]]. In 2004 he was awarded an OBE for 30 years service in the Aluminium industry.<ref>Peter McCusker,Aug 26 2008 [http://www.nebusiness.co.uk/business-news/interviews-with-business-people/2008/08/26/defender-of-jobs-foresees-new-battle-51140-21603807/ Defender of jobs foresees new battle] The Journal. Accessed 16/05/10</ref> <ref>ALFED, [http://www.alfed.org.uk/page.asp?node=34&sec=Annual_Reports Annual Report 2009] Accessed 07/04/10</ref>
+'''Wyn Jones''' is the former managing director of [[Alcan]] Aluminium UK (Now [[Rio Tinto Alcan]] UK) (2000-2010).<ref> by Peter McCusker, [http://www.nebusiness.co.uk/business-news/latest-business-news/2010/07/29/alcan-boss-wyn-jones-stands-down-51140-26952460/ Alcan boss Wyn Jones stands down], Jul 29 2010, The Journal, accessed 19 July 2010. </ref>  He is also Vice President of the [[Aluminium Federation]]. In 2004 he was awarded an OBE for 30 years service in the Aluminium industry.<ref>Peter McCusker,Aug 26 2008 [http://www.nebusiness.co.uk/business-news/interviews-with-business-people/2008/08/26/defender-of-jobs-foresees-new-battle-51140-21603807/ Defender of jobs foresees new battle] The Journal. Accessed 16/05/10</ref> <ref>ALFED, [http://www.alfed.org.uk/page.asp?node=34&sec=Annual_Reports Annual Report 2009] Accessed 07/04/10</ref>
 During his time as managing director of [[Alcan]] Aluminium UK he was head of Lynemouth primary smelter and its coal power station, as well as the Lochaber smelter in Fort William, Scotland, and its two associated hydro-power stations<ref>Peter McCusker,Aug 26 2008 [http://www.nebusiness.co.uk/business-news/interviews-with-business-people/2008/08/26/defender-of-jobs-foresees-new-battle-51140-21603807/ Defender of jobs foresees new battle] The Journal. Accessed 16/05/10</ref>.

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	than climate change. But that rather misses the link again I think, going forward. But that’s really where many governments are directing their policies at the moment, particularly in relation to Africa. Companies, like [[Alcan]], can provide leadership on clean, fresh water provision, and indeed in fighting HIV and Aids in Africa, which is not necessarily climate change related, but it is certainly something that does divert policy attention away from climate change.<ref>Lloyd’s 360 Live Debate – Climate Change. Wednesday 5 July 2006 – London. [http://www.lloyds.com/NR/rdonlyres/.../360LiveDebateWynJones.pdf 'The Industrial View'] Wyn Jones OBE, Chairman, British Alcan Aluminium Plc. Accessed 16/05/10</ref>		than climate change. But that rather misses the link again I think, going forward. But that’s really where many governments are directing their policies at the moment, particularly in relation to Africa. Companies, like [[Alcan]], can provide leadership on clean, fresh water provision, and indeed in fighting HIV and Aids in Africa, which is not necessarily climate change related, but it is certainly something that does divert policy attention away from climate change.<ref>Lloyd’s 360 Live Debate – Climate Change. Wednesday 5 July 2006 – London. [http://www.lloyds.com/NR/rdonlyres/.../360LiveDebateWynJones.pdf 'The Industrial View'] Wyn Jones OBE, Chairman, British Alcan Aluminium Plc. Accessed 16/05/10</ref>

−	The claim that [[Alcan]] (now [[~~RioTinto~~]] ~~Alcan~~) are helping the poor with water and medicine is really outrageous. In contrast, Alcan's smelter in Coega, South Africa, has caused price rises and electricity blackouts for resident's already in poverty, as it is demanding too much power from the grid, and paying such low prices for energy that the taxpayer is at times actually subsidising it<ref>Environment SA. 11 May 2007 [http://www.environment.co.za/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=737 COEGA ELECTRICITY - WHO WILL PAY?] Accessed 16/05/10</ref>. [[Rio Tinto]] was described by a motion in the British parliament in 1997 as “the most uncaring and ruthless company in the world”, for human rights, anti-unionising and total disregard for indigenous people<ref>Clapham, M., UK Parliament, House of Commons. 1998. Rio Tinto Corporation. Early day motion 1194.	+	The claim that [[Alcan]] (now [[Rio Tinto Alcan]]) are helping the poor with water and medicine is really outrageous. In contrast, Alcan's smelter in Coega, South Africa, has caused price rises and electricity blackouts for resident's already in poverty, as it is demanding too much power from the grid, and paying such low prices for energy that the taxpayer is at times actually subsidising it<ref>Environment SA. 11 May 2007 [http://www.environment.co.za/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=737 COEGA ELECTRICITY - WHO WILL PAY?] Accessed 16/05/10</ref>. [[Rio Tinto]] was described by a motion in the British parliament in 1997 as “the most uncaring and ruthless company in the world”, for human rights, anti-unionising and total disregard for indigenous people<ref>Clapham, M., UK Parliament, House of Commons. 1998. Rio Tinto Corporation. Early day motion 1194.HMSO, London.</ref>, and was pulled up again in 2000, for war crimes, environmental destruction and racism<ref>UK Parliament, House of Commons. 2000. Weekly Information Bulletin, 16-12-2000. HMSO, London.</ref>. Producing aluminium uses 1350 tons of water for every ton of aluminium produced. This removes water from the domestic supply, which hits particularly hard in 'developing' nations.<ref>Das, S. and Padel, F. 2010,'Out of this earth: East India Adivasis and the aluminium cartel' Orient Blackswan</ref> In India there is much evidence that poverty has actually increased wherever the aluminium industry is found, due to displacement, lack of jobs, drought, disease, and profit going abroad<ref>Das, S. and Padel, F. 2010,'Out of this earth: East India Adivasis and the aluminium cartel' Orient Blackswan</ref>.
−	HMSO, London.</ref>, and was pulled up again in 2000, for war crimes, environmental destruction and racism<ref>UK Parliament, House of Commons. 2000. Weekly Information Bulletin, 16-12-2000. HMSO, London.</ref>. Producing aluminium uses 1350 tons of water for every ton of aluminium produced. This removes water from the domestic supply, which hits particularly hard in 'developing' nations.<ref>Das, S. and Padel, F. 2010,'Out of this earth: East India Adivasis and the aluminium cartel' Orient Blackswan</ref> In India there is much evidence that poverty has actually increased wherever the aluminium industry is found, due to displacement, lack of jobs, drought, disease, and profit going abroad<ref>Das, S. and Padel, F. 2010,'Out of this earth: East India Adivasis and the aluminium cartel' Orient Blackswan</ref>.

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 :What we’re looking at [in the aluminium industry] is a reduction in CO2-equivalent emissions in absolute terms by 65%. The Kyoto target was 12.5%. Most people are now saying that over 60% would be needed by 2050, so I’m not presenting this as “resting on our laurels issue”, it’s a start. But I offer it as a hope that things are possible indeed, because in the time that we made that reduction, you can see that we increased our output on the right-hand axis by some 20%.<ref>Lloyd’s 360 Live Debate – Climate Change. Wednesday 5 July 2006 – London. [http://www.lloyds.com/NR/rdonlyres/.../360LiveDebateWynJones.pdf 'The Industrial View'] Wyn Jones OBE, Chairman, British Alcan Aluminium Plc. Accessed 16/05/10</ref>
-It is not clear what Jones is referring to by 65%. The European Aluminium industry usually claims to have reduced emissions by 45% since 1990<ref>'Shape' Sapa Magazine 2010, no 1. [http://www.sapagroup.com/pages/12834/Shape_1001_EN.pdf Aluminium: The Sustainable Material] Accessed 16/05/10</ref>, or 39% globally<ref>Philip Dunne, Hansard, House of Commons, 2nd Feb 2010 : Column 275 - 279 [http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200910/cmhansrd/cm100202/debtext/100202-0021.htm 'Aluminium Industry'] Accessed 06/04/10</ref>. These figures do not show that though technological advances have been made, emissions savings in the smelting process in recent decades have been overshadowed by considerable overall emissions increases. In fact, [[Alcoa]] predicts a 20% increase of CO2e emitted per year from ca.335 million tonnes of CO2e in 2000 to ca. 400 million tonnes in 2020<ref>Overbey, R., 2005. [http://www.alcoa.com/global/en/news/pdf/conference_board.pdf Sustainability, what more should companies do?] Alcoa Conference Board Session on Sustainability. Alcoa.Accessed 12-12-2008</ref>. Aluminium production still accounts for ca. 1% of global greenhouse gas emissions, producing 13.1 tons of CO2 equivalent per ton of aluminium, and plans to expand the industry in coming years cannot lead to a greenhouse gas reduction overall. <ref>Jaap Krater and Miriam Rose, [http://savingiceland.puscii.nl/?tag=climate-change&language=en 'Development of Iceland’s geothermal energy potential for aluminium production– a critical analysis'],In: Abrahamsky, K. (ed) (2009). Sparking a World-wide Energy Revolution: Social Struggles in the Transition to a Post-Petrol World. AK Press, Edinburgh.</ref>
+It is not clear what Jones is referring to by 65%. The European Aluminium industry usually claims to have reduced emissions by 45% since 1990<ref>'Shape' Sapa Magazine 2010, no 1. [http://www.sapagroup.com/pages/12834/Shape_1001_EN.pdf Aluminium: The Sustainable Material] Accessed 16/05/10</ref>, or 39% globally<ref>Philip Dunne, Hansard, House of Commons, 2nd Feb 2010 : Column 275 - 279 [http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200910/cmhansrd/cm100202/debtext/100202-0021.htm 'Aluminium Industry'] Accessed 06/04/10</ref>. These figures do not show that though technological advances have been made, emissions savings in the smelting process in recent decades have been overshadowed by considerable overall emissions increases. In fact, [[Alcoa]] predicts a 20% increase of CO2e emitted per year from ca.335 million tonnes of CO2e in 2000 to ca. 400 million tonnes in 2020<ref>Overbey, R., 2005. [http://www.alcoa.com/global/en/news/pdf/conference_board.pdf Sustainability, what more should companies do?] Alcoa Conference Board Session on Sustainability. Alcoa.Accessed 12-12-2008</ref>, in line with the 20% increase in production which Jones mentions here. Aluminium production still accounts for ca. 1% of global greenhouse gas emissions, producing 13.1 tons of CO2 equivalent per ton of aluminium, and plans to expand the industry in coming years cannot lead to a greenhouse gas reduction overall. <ref>Jaap Krater and Miriam Rose, [http://savingiceland.puscii.nl/?tag=climate-change&language=en 'Development of Iceland’s geothermal energy potential for aluminium production– a critical analysis'],In: Abrahamsky, K. (ed) (2009). Sparking a World-wide Energy Revolution: Social Struggles in the Transition to a Post-Petrol World. AK Press, Edinburgh.</ref>
 The IPCC report specifically on the emissions from energy intensive industries, which are mainly steel, iron and aluminium. It does not record any decrease, and states:

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 He claims some regulation on industry is needed to tackle climate change, but that this should be developed with industry and not simply by government. He goes on to pass the blame to the domestic sector and building which he claims should do more:
-:They will say there’s regulation coming, so I think we need to unpick this, working with government, and we set up by agreement the direction and challenges that we’re going to undertake, rather than have them emerging from some committee room in the bowels of Whitehall, as a regulation which hasn’t been fully thought through. I certainly think regulation has a major part to play in sectors that are not responsive, such as the domestic sector and the building sector.
+:They will say there’s regulation coming, so I think we need to unpick this, working with government, and we set up by agreement the direction and challenges that we’re going to undertake, rather than have them emerging from some committee room in the bowels of Whitehall, as a regulation which hasn’t been fully thought through. I certainly think regulation has a major part to play in sectors that are not responsive, such as the domestic sector and the building sector<ref>Lloyd’s 360 Live Debate – Climate Change. Wednesday 5 July 2006 – London. [http://www.lloyds.com/NR/rdonlyres/.../360LiveDebateWynJones.pdf 'The Industrial View'] Wyn Jones OBE, Chairman, British Alcan Aluminium Plc. Accessed 16/05/10</ref>.
 The [[Aluminium Federation]] has so far worked hard to get close to government and develop policy with them, resulting in considerable exemptions from the [[Climate Change Levy]] and subsidised energy prices in British smelters.
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 Jones finishes by talking about 'competitiveness', suggesting that penalising industry for their greenhouse gas releases through financial mechanisms will harm Britain's economy as industry will move elsewhere. Instead we should rely on industry to come up with techno-fixes (innovation) which can deal with the climate change issue:
-:leadership isn’t really just defined by setting tough targets and beating people into the ground. The objective we should have is that innovation and competitiveness are seen as going together and I think that competitiveness issue still hasn’t been adequately addressed, as we stand at the moment. And I think this is an issue that we need to get tough on so that we encourage the spreading out of the realisations that we have in the UK into other countries.
+:leadership isn’t really just defined by setting tough targets and beating people into the ground. The objective we should have is that innovation and competitiveness are seen as going together and I think that competitiveness issue still hasn’t been adequately addressed, as we stand at the moment. And I think this is an issue that we need to get tough on so that we encourage the spreading out of the realisations that we have in the UK into other countries<ref>Lloyd’s 360 Live Debate – Climate Change. Wednesday 5 July 2006 – London. [http://www.lloyds.com/NR/rdonlyres/.../360LiveDebateWynJones.pdf 'The Industrial View'] Wyn Jones OBE, Chairman, British Alcan Aluminium Plc. Accessed 16/05/10</ref>.
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 :Nevertheless, whether aluminium is produced from bauxite or from scrap, these operations are not in competition with each other. They are both integrated and necessary parts of the aluminium material cycle.<ref>European Aluminium Association, 2002 [http://www.alufuture.org/affg/06/06.htm Life Cycle Assessment and Aluminium: What you need to know] Accessed 13/05/10</ref>
-He goes on to assert the importance of strong carbon targets which would create a steady environment for industry investment<ref>Lloyd’s 360 Live Debate – Climate Change. Wednesday 5 July 2006 – London. [http://www.lloyds.com/NR/rdonlyres/.../360LiveDebateWynJones.pdf 'The Industrial View'] Wyn Jones OBE, Chairman, British Alcan Aluminium Plc. Accessed 16/05/10</ref>. Though it may seem contrary that heavily polluting industries would ask for tougher targets, the [[carbon trading]] mechanisms which have been agreed on (and criticised as ineffectual and industry-biased by many<ref>Larry Lohmann, "[http://www.dhf.uu.se/pdffiler/DD2006_48_carbon_trading/carbon_trading_ch_2.pdf Carbon Trading: A critical conversation on Climate Change, Privatisation and Power]", Dag Hammarskjold Foundation, Durban Group for Climate Justice and The Corner House, Oct 2006, p. 31, Accessed April 2009</ref>) have been kind to many energy intensive industries, who have received exemptions and free credits, but also been able to trade credits based claims to greenhouse gas reduction. These claims have been critiqued for not being additional (e.g installing new technologies which they would have done anyway), and not being quantifiable (e.g forest plantations which may be ripped up a few years later or in fact used for cash crops). The higher the target, the higher the price of these credits, and the stronger the market for carbon<ref>Larry Lohmann, "[http://www.dhf.uu.se/pdffiler/DD2006_48_carbon_trading/carbon_trading_ch_2.pdf Carbon Trading: A critical conversation on Climate Change, Privatisation and Power]", Dag Hammarskjold Foundation, Durban Group for Climate Justice and The Corner House, Oct 2006, p. 31, Accessed April 2009</ref>.
+He goes on to assert the importance of strong carbon targets which would create a steady environment for industry investment<ref>Lloyd’s 360 Live Debate – Climate Change. Wednesday 5 July 2006 – London. [http://www.lloyds.com/NR/rdonlyres/.../360LiveDebateWynJones.pdf 'The Industrial View'] Wyn Jones OBE, Chairman, British Alcan Aluminium Plc. Accessed 16/05/10</ref>. Though it may seem contrary that heavily polluting industries would ask for tougher targets, the [[Carbon Trading]] mechanisms which have been agreed on (and criticised as ineffectual and industry-biased by many<ref>Larry Lohmann, "[http://www.dhf.uu.se/pdffiler/DD2006_48_carbon_trading/carbon_trading_ch_2.pdf Carbon Trading: A critical conversation on Climate Change, Privatisation and Power]", Dag Hammarskjold Foundation, Durban Group for Climate Justice and The Corner House, Oct 2006, p. 31, Accessed April 2009</ref>) have been kind to many energy intensive industries, who have received exemptions and free credits, but also been able to trade credits based claims to greenhouse gas reduction. These claims have been critiqued for not being additional (e.g installing new technologies which they would have done anyway), and not being quantifiable (e.g forest plantations which may be ripped up a few years later or in fact used for cash crops). The higher the target, the higher the price of these credits, and the stronger the market for carbon<ref>Larry Lohmann, "[http://www.dhf.uu.se/pdffiler/DD2006_48_carbon_trading/carbon_trading_ch_2.pdf Carbon Trading: A critical conversation on Climate Change, Privatisation and Power]", Dag Hammarskjold Foundation, Durban Group for Climate Justice and The Corner House, Oct 2006, p. 31, Accessed April 2009</ref>.
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