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Can Britain become the Saudi Arabia of carbon capture?

1 May 2023

12:09 AM

1 May 2023

12:09 AM

Boris Johnson wanted to make Britain ‘the Saudi Arabia of wind’. But Grant Shapps is keen to send Britain’s green agenda in a new direction. Speaking at The Spectator’s Energy Summit on 26 April, the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net-Zero announced the government’s ambitions for Carbon Capture, Utilisation and Storage – CCUS – where carbon dioxide is sucked out of the air with the aid of solvents and either put to use or buried deep in the ground where – hopefully – it will remain locked up forever after.

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