A prominent Labour MP has accused the UK Government of marching carbon capture and storage backers “up to the top of the hill” only to march them “back down again” in the past. Rachel Reeves, who chairs the Commons business, energy and industrial strategy committee, asked experts yesterday how this had affected investment and engagement going forward. In 2015, the Tories were charged with wasting an opportunity to secure an alternative future for the North Sea by cancelling a £1 billion competition for development money at the last minute. Ms Reeves said: “A couple of times you have been marched up to the top of the hill only to be marched back down again.”
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Shell’s plans to decommission a North Sea pipeline have not derailed a major clean energy scheme in Peterhead, organisers have insisted. The energy giant yesterday submitted plans to the UK government to shut down the Goldeneye field, which lies 81miles north-east of Aberdeen. It comes as Pale Blue Dot is aiming to expand the Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) facility at the St Fergus gas terminal near Peterhead, which was recently highlighted by a government taskforce as a “key area” to further roll out the technology. Goldeneye’s pipeline is part of the proposals to build-out the Acorn CCS project at St Fergus, and Pale Blue Dot is hoping to avoid anything which could put up the cost of its use, or stop them from using it altogether.
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