UK 'must take the lead on carbon capture'

摘要

Energy giant BP's scrapping of plans for a 375MW carbon capture and storage (CCS) power project in Scotland dealt a bitter blow to British hopes of being the first to prove the climate change-beating technology.rnHad the Peterhead scheme gone ahead, it would have locked up an estimated 1.8M tonnes of carbon dioxide a year from a gas-fired power station, and helped win an extra 40 million barrels of otherwise unrecoverable oil from the nearby Miller North Sea oil field.