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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Press Releases
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Carbon Capture Factsheet: The True Cost of Funding Failure
CCS projects have cost the public £500million – with another £25billion in subsidy promised
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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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Open Letter to Scottish Government urging them to reject Peterhead power station plans
Dozens of groups warm about impact on climate and household bills of new fossil fuel commitments
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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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Why we need to stop new gas at Peterhead
Short briefing on why this proposal is bad news for our climate, workers and the transition away from fossil fuels.
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