Labour to commit almost £22bn to fund carbon capture and storage projects

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/oct/04/labour-to-commit-almost-22bn-to-fund-carbon-capture-and-storage-projects

Posted by topotaul

4 Comments

  1. Less than 1 billion a year but it’s an industry climate scientists don’t seem to agree with and think it may do more harm than good or at least believe there are better ways to spend the moneys

    The “Government of vibes” is really starting to stick in my mind when I read a lot of these decisions and choices.

  2. Aspirational1 on

    It’s not an established technology. It’s ‘I really, really want this to work ‘ stuff.

    But, even conceptually, how do you keep a gas underground? Supposedly in ex-oil fields.

    How do you capture the CO2 in the first place? It is possible, if you expend enormous amounts of energy.

    Face the fact that we must stop oil and gas. We’re fucked anyway, but slightly less if no new drilling occurs.

  3. Winter fuel payment: can’t afford it, too expensive.

    Fossil fuel industry scam: sure why not? it’s not like we have anything better to do with the money…

  4. This sounds like great news! As someone who deeply cares about the envirome-…

    … I mean, grrr winter fuel payment grrrrrrr