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Carbon capture: UK paid firms 30m despite scrapping projects
2016-06-19 15:17:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The government has handed out almost 30m to Shell and other companies for work on carbon capture and storage (CCS) despite scrapping their projects, which could have played a role in beating climate change. The payments, revealed in a written parliamentary answer, come as the UK government is about to host the international Carbon Sequestration Leadership Forum despite having just scrapped a 1bn CCS research programme. It also means that more than 230m has been spent on CCS since 2011 and...
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