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Scrap the NEW round of carbon capture funding

Submitted on Wednesday 4th April 2012

Published on Tuesday 10th April 2012

Current status: Closed

Closed: Wednesday 10th October 2012

Signatures: 2

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Scrap the NEW round of carbon capture funding

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The government has, in April 2012, announced plans to revive the previously abandoned carbon capture schemes.

These schemes have already been dismissed as impractical. Even if they can be made to work they will NOT provide us with energy security, as carbon capture is NOT an energy source. In fact they will hasten the exhaustion of fossil fuel reserves by making power stations less efficient.

The cost will be colossal, at over a billion per plant. It will, quite simply, be money wasted on a scam designed to line the pockets of investors in this sector. We believe that funding of this kind should instead be awarded to research into new energy sources, a strategy which will provide for long-term energy security and the protection of the environment.


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