PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Carbon Capture and Storage (3 June 2016)
Question Asked
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what steps she has taken to engage with the bidders for the carbon capture and storage competition since its cancellation.
Asked by:
Clive Lewis (Labour)
Asked by:
Clive Lewis (Labour)
Answer
The Department has continued to engage and meet with both bidders in the carbon capture and storage (CCS) competition – Shell and Capture Power Limited. We are clear that CCS is too expensive and costs must come down. We continue to work with wider industry to help develop CCS cost efficiency in the UK, including through the joint Government-industry CCS Development Forum, which I co-chair
Answered by:
Andrea Leadsom (Conservative)
8 June 2016
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