Carbon Capture Factsheet: The True Cost of Funding Failure

This briefing by Oil Change International shows how the UK government is spending public money to support Carbon Capture and Storage – essentially the fossil fuel industry’s pursuit of the most expensive and least effective emission mitigation option available.

The fossil fuel industry directly harms communities, destroys ecosystems, and drives the climate crisis. The current wave of carbon capture projects and the government subsidies that support them only further entrench the fossil fuel industry and the damage it causes.

The repeated failure over many years to introduce carbon capture at Peterhead gas power station in Aberdeen is emblematic of this wasteful and ultimately fruitless approach.