Brits could face an extra £20 a year on energy bills to fund unproven carbon capture technology as the Government proposes to spend £21.7 billion on projects to capture the gas from the air and store it underground. The Mail has the story.
The projects are expected to cost £21.7 billion over the next 25 years. And the top mandarin at Ed Miliband’s Department for Net Zero has revealed that around three quarters will be funded from energy bills.
That would mean roughly £520 for each of the country’s domestic and non-domestic users, or just over £20 a year.
However, commercial users are likely to end up paying a higher proportion, and levies will not be added until 2029 when projects are up and running.
DESNZ Permanent Secretary Jeremy Pocklington told MPs on the Public Accounts Committee last week that the other quarter of costs would probably be borne from central Government funds. …
The Government wants to decarbonise the energy grid by 2030, although unabated gas power stations will be kept in reserve.
Mr. Pocklington told MPs: “Our assessment is that carbon capture, as part of a wider suite of policies, is the most appropriate and the best-value way to meet our carbon budgets and tackle climate change.
“If you do not use carbon capture in some form, the other things that you are doing are more challenging than carbon capture. That is the key essence.
‘For some industries – for example, cement, where there are very high emissions from essentially chemical processes – as yet we do not have another tech that works that will be able to capture the emissions reliably. So carbon capture has to play an important role in meeting our carbon budgets.’
Projects being planned include Net Zero Teesside, which will see emissions from a new gas-fired power station captured, liquefied and then stored underneath the North Sea.
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More like £200!
I slipped up. In the first leaflet issued by Labour locally there was a claim of savings of “up to £1400 a year” on energy bills. I binned it. I still have references in correspondence with the candidate but it’s not the same.
The only way to save “up to £1400″on energy bills is to move into the middle of nowhere, find a cave to inhabit and burn sticks and branches.
Which is sounding like a better and better idea.
If the UK will have 95% “renewables” by 2050, why is carbon capture needed?
a very good question!!!!!
Presumably CO2 emitted from China and the rest of the world doesn’t enter UK air.
British air sits just over Britain and foreign air cannot get in. It’s like London air in ULEZ zones, never stirs, never contaminated by outside air.
Thanks for that wonderfully scientific explanation!
Of all the mad schemes of our madleft and decadent Establishment “carbon capture” has to be the maddest.
Being a masochist, I’m currently wading through my council’s update on their 2109 climate declaration and pledges. Apart from it being largely unintelligible, it’s clear that the scam is embedded deep in all levels of government and associated quangos. It’s not easy to see how they can be stopped.
Fraud can be very profitable particularly when you have government as your accomplice and ‘the law’ on your side which says plunder in the climate cause is legal, indeed commendable.
Their excuse is that it is an investment. An investment in fairy tales!
Oh that’s a shame – so after the £300 a year that Millibrain is going to save me I will only have £280 net in my pocket.
Top drawer journalism from the Mail, not even bothering to ask the question WHY we must have this batshit crazy “technology” in the first place.
Indeed, many people struggle to ask that deceptively simple question… ‘why?’
And here are a few more examples of Kneel’s government giving the British people the middle finger, otherwise known as Foxtrot Oscar.
David Craig at TCW.
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/how-the-powerful-tell-us-all-to-foxtrot-oscar/
Perhaps there will be a market for the bureaucratic output, as there is for ROCs & REGOs (in the renewable field) so that you can claim a net effect of being carbon neutral, even though you’re an animal.
Numerous examples listed detailing the dangers of the ridiculous Carbon Capture Storage.
Burying CO2 is akin to making a gigantic bomb beneath the earth’s surface and God help those in the vicinity when, not if, it goes off.
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/the-great-carbon-capture-con-trick/
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/the-climate-scaremongers-is-there-no-end-to-milibands-madness/
Paul Homewood with some brutal facts:
“Carbon capture still has not been proven at scale commercially anywhere in the world, so the money will likely be wasted. Even if it works, the projects approved will capture 8million tonnes of carbon dioxide a year – the world in total emits 35,000million tonnes.”
“It seems as if our whole energy policy is being directed by a bunch of sixth-formers, who have no clue as to how the energy system actually works.”
If we didn’t know that Milibrain was simply taking orders the last statement would be indisputable.
8m tonnes = 0.023% of the global emissions. To capture it all we’d need 4375 of these devices at a total cost of about 100 trillion pounds. If the global population is 7bn, that equates to a cost of about £14250 per head. Much cheaper to run the risk….
Thanks for doing the sums
2029 – the year the student union government is ejected unless a huge financial crisis from Rachel from Accounts comes first. As Bev on GB News said this morning, other than train drivers and junior doctors, who do the students stand for given the increasing list of pissed off groups now includes the Waspi women.
We know this is rubbish on so many levels, so like all rubbish ideas, it will be quietly shuffled away and while we may have to pay for it, we will also have to pay for the decommissioning of it and then whatever ridiculous scam comes along next, so for me, the price is already rocketing upwards. Maybe a better idea, go to all of the high carbon emitters and get them to subsidize the madness rather than letting them buy up good quality agricultural land and cover it with trees that we can’t eat. They can then all pat each other on the back for what a great job they are doing when actually they are doing nothing other than giving us more life-enriching CO2 to feed the agriculture they are no longer destroying with their tax break offsets
Also regarding farmers, there is a large enough market here in UK, they shouldn’t have to sell abroad, and we should not need to import from Brazil etc.
In this article: https://eandt.theiet.org/2024/11/20/british-steel-opens-ps10m-rail-stocking-facility-capacity-hold-25000-tonnes-finished there is an item about carbon capture & storage. Note that British Steel is Chinese, in effect.
Plant some more trees? They are very good at cc – I’m guessing not enough money flowing to the right people with that solution
But they are chopping down trees to make room for wind turbines!
Okay to summarise.
We are totally dependent on a technology that does not exist, except in the fevered minds of Climate Zealots.
However, these same zealots are willing to spend massive amounts of other peoples money, in the vain hope it can be made to work and obey their “Science”.
If only so little.
It’ll turn out to be 100 times that if miiliband isn’t stopped.
We already have a 15% climate levy added; electrical wholsale prices have doubled since the move towards net zero, making ours some of the most expensive in the world. We can expect them to at least double again.
This is so scientifically illiterate I cannot begin to express my incredulity.
A colossal waste of every taxpayer’s cash. An utter scam from start to finish.
Could be worse, the US DoD managed to “lose” (wink wink) $2.3Tn, so… yeah…
Carbon Capture Costly Con
When you develop a certain understanding you learn that there are certain things that you don’t tamper with. To do so is to invite forces of destruction that we can’t even understand. We can’t even believe that the matrix, system, construct, reality – whatever you belieeve it to be.,I can tell with with certainty that it has certain restrictions. Think of it as playing a video game and trying to either step outside of the programmed reality or even trying to change the programming. You are going to piss the programmer off.
What is shown in the picture? The structure appears to have a large array of fans. Are they releasing hot or cold air? I have previously suggested that air conditioning units which transfer heat from within to without (the opposite of heat pumps) must be contributing to atmospheric warming. Perhaps the installation of a Met Office weather station adjacent to this thing would be interesting.
Ever thought about planting crops ? We can eat them too, and they are a rather more natural and environmentally friendly form of carbon capture
There’s a drain at the end of my street. Why don’t they just pour the money down that? It would be a great deal easier and achieve the same thing: SFA.