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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Business
Rob Davies

Prax Lindsey oil refinery owners urged to ‘do decent thing’ for workers

The Lindsey oil refinery in Lincolnshire.
The Lindsey site in Lincolnshire is one of only five oil refineries left in the UK. Photograph: Stephen Parrott/Alamy

The UK government has written to the husband-and-wife team behind the insolvent Prax Lindsey oil refinery in Lincolnshire urging them to “do the decent thing” and support affected workers financially, amid mounting concern that finding a buyer for the plant will be difficult.

In a letter to the Prax Group owners, Arani and Sanjeev Kumar Soosaipillai, seen by the Guardian, the junior energy minister Michael Shanks said the government was “urgently exploring what support can be offered to the workforce at this difficult time”.

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