Has the fossil fuel industry 'captured' the UK's CCS programme?

Cecilia Keating
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Industrial architecture in Teesside, part of the East Coast CCS cluster | Credit: iStock
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Industrial architecture in Teesside, part of the East Coast CCS cluster | Credit: iStock

Carbon capture is hailed as a climate solution - but the first wave of projects to be sponsored by the government will extend the country's reliance on fossil fuels, a new analysis argues

The UK government's carbon capture strategy is undermining its broader decarbonisation goals, with the vast majority of the projects it is preparing to support likely to extend the country's long-term...

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