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Cost of carbon capture failures revealed

The UK committed or already spent nearly £500 million on carbon capture projects since 2010, and yet there are no commercial-scale carbon capture projects.

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Carbon capture visit and funding ‘makes a mockery’ of planning process

Vital public services are crying out for funding yet John Swinney is giving millions of pounds to a pet project of Shell, who made £50 billion profit in the last two years.

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44 organisations urge Scottish Government to reject ‘disastrous’ fossil fuel expansion at Peterhead

Organisations from across Scottish society demand Ministers to reject this disastrous development which will only benefit greedy energy companies at a huge cost to Scottish households and the climate

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SSE want to ‘pull wool over’ public’s eyes on Peterhead gas expansion plan

Climate activists protest SSE huge profits and company plans to build new gas burning power station at Peterhead.

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Controversial COP28 oil company buys into Scottish carbon capture greenwash project

The UAE oil giant has the biggest fossil fuel expansion plans in the world.

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Polluted politics: Fossil fuel lobbyists met MSPs almost 800 times

The revelations come as concern grows about the corrupting influence of oil companies on Scotland’s efforts to tackle climate breakdown.

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Study exposes ‘gaping chasm’ in Scottish climate plans due to carbon capture over-reliance

Reality must finally be dawning on Ministers after new research downgraded the estimation of how much carbon could be captured by these controversial technologies

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'No new Peterhead gas' protestors at front of Scottish Parliament

Scottish Government warned Peterhead fossil fuel power plans are ‘house of cards’ as COP28 begins

Campaigners warn approving new fossil fuel power at Peterhead would lock Scotland into using fossil fuels for decades, shackling household energy bills to prices set by volatile global gas markets.

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Scottish Government warned Peterhead fossil gas plans are ‘climate disaster’ on eve of COP28

The Scottish Government must not undermine the transition to renewables and allow the building of new fossil fuel infrastructure.

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