Counting costs of competition scrappage

摘要

The government's decision to scrap the UK's carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology development competition could increase the cost of meeting the country's carbon emissions targets by 2050 by £30bn, according to a report from the National Audit Office. The competition was scrapped in former Chancellor George Osborne's autumn Spending Review last December. Work on the two competing projects, White Rose in Yorkshire and Peterhead in Scotland, both ceased before their final designs were submitted.