carbon capture

Must-watch video: Joss analyses government carbon capture and storage plans

Posted by christian - 6 May 2009 at 11:25am - 4 Comments

Ed Miliband's announcement that no new coal-fired power stations will be built in the UK without carbon capture and storage technology included changed the coal playing field. Does this mean the campaign against new coal is over? Or is the devil in the detail?

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Government’s carbon capture push “exposes incoherence of its energy policy”

1 July, 2008

The government was today criticised by environmentalists over its latest plans for more coal power stations.

Last night, the Government announced the publication of a consultation on carbon capture and storage (CCS).

Robin Oakley, the head of Greenpeace's climate and energy campaign, said:

"Coal burning is the single greatest threat to our climate, and this announcement does nothing to change that. It's nothing more than a smokescreen.

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Government under pressure on energy as green groups echo campaign think tank

10 June, 2008

A call by David Cameron's favourite think tank for a radical new approach to UK energy policy was today echoed by the UK's biggest green groups. Policy Exchange is calling for the kind of greenhouse gas efficiency standard that is applied to cars to now be applied to power stations. The call comes on the same day that Greenpeace, WWF, Friends of the Earth and the RSPB released a joint recommendation for the introduction of a tough new performance standard of 350g of CO2 per kilowatt hour for power plants.

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