Carbon capture and storage

The Energy and Climate Change Committee of the House of Commons (lower house of the United Kingdom Parliament) published a report 'Carbon capture and storage' in May 2014.

In the report Members of Parliament (MPs) urged the UK Government to fast-track final funding decisions on two pilot Carbon capture and storage (CCS) projects at Peterhead and Drax by early 2015, after years of delay in the ‘competition’ launched to provide capital support for the industry.

The technology – which can be fitted to coal and gas power stations - is vital to limit climate change, according to the Energy and Climate Change Committee, because there is more CO2 locked up in fossil fuel reserves than can be safely burnt without pushing global temperatures beyond 2 degrees Celsius – a dangerous threshold according to scientists.

United Kingdom: House of Commons: Energy and Climate Change Committee: News, 21.05.14: Fast track carbon capture and storage pilot projects after 'lost decade' of delay http://www.parliament.uk/business/committees/committees-a-z/commons-select/energy-and-climate-change-committee/news/carbon-capture-storage-substantive/

ESO: Background information: Carbon capture and storage http://www.europeansources.info/record/carbon-capture-and-storage/

ESO: Background information: Carbon Capture and Geological Storage (CCS) http://www.europeansources.info/record/website-carbon-capture-and-geological-storage-ccs/

BBC News, 21.05.14: Oil and gas fields in UK could become CO2 dumps, say MPs http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-27488744

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