[nomadking]

Originally Posted by Hugh

You appear to have missed a bit out from the source of your first quote, which was from the BBC last month.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-48113303

But for the period 2018/19 we were still in the EU irrespective of any withdrawal agreement. Either the EU carbon tax didn't apply or the free carbon permits still did.



Still leaves from Oct 2015:-

Tata Steel is blaming collapsing prices, high electricity costs, green taxes on energy prices and the strong pound for its decision to cut back its UK operations.
Basically it's too expensive to make steel in the UK in a highly competitive world market.