Really pleased to contribute to @BylineTimes below before the June 11th spending review
Research in my blog with @SiOldridge here substack.com/inbox/post/1653… on the massive costs of CCS
Message for Nov 27th is the same -
#ThinkAgainRachel about burning billions on Carbon Capture
10 Nov 2025
"The £264 billion Price Tag of the UK’s Carbon Capture Strategy."
...a “dangerous distraction” to the real measures required to tackle catastrophic man-made climate change"
And note, 'after extensive lobbying' by Equinor, BP & Exxon Mobil...
bylinetimes.com/2025/06/11/r…
@Andrew9Boswell @StuartSpray
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#Chancellor
#SpendingReview
Revealed: The £264 billion Price Tag of the UK’s Carbon Capture Strategy - @bylinetimes
“a colossal waste of money that actively worsens the climate crisis even with carbon capture”.
Read more 👉 scrapcc.org/BYLINE
8 Jun 2025
Gov often presents carbon capture as being about stopping emissions from existing industry.
But it’s mostly an excuse to burn more fossil gas and wood.
Industrial #CCS makes up a tiny part of the planned spending. Link below.
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Revealed: The £264 billion Price Tag of the UK’s Carbon Capture Strategy - @bylinetimes
“a colossal waste of money that actively worsens the climate crisis even with carbon capture”
Read more 👉 scrapcc.org/BYLINE
Rachel Reeves states that a Labour government would invest in 'carbon capture technology' alongside Drax.
Drax is one of the UK's biggest polluters and donated thousands of pounds to the Labour party last year.
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Revealed: The £264 billion Price Tag of the UK’s Carbon Capture Strategy - @bylinetimes.bsky.social
“a colossal waste of money that actively worsens the climate crisis even with carbon capture”
Read more 👉 scrapcc.org/BYLINE
10 Jun 2025
Carbon capture and storage (#CCS) just keeps falling - very - short
"Climeworks does not capture enough carbon units to offset its own operations. ... it has captured a maximum of one thousand tons of CO2 in one year"
heimildin.is/grein/24581/cli…
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#Chancellor
#SpendingReview
Revealed: The £264 billion Price Tag of the UK’s Carbon Capture Strategy - @bylinetimes
“a colossal waste of money that actively worsens the climate crisis even with carbon capture”.
Read more 👉 scrapcc.org/BYLINE
11 Jun 2025
🔴Revealed: The £264 billion Price Tag of the UK’s Carbon Capture Strategy
Critics argue the technology is a “dangerous distraction” to the real measures required to tackle catastrophic man-made climate change
bylinetimes.com/2025/06/11/r…
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#SpendingReview
Revealed: The £264 billion Price Tag of the UK’s Carbon Capture Strategy - @bylinetimes.bsky.social
“a colossal waste of money that actively worsens the climate crisis even with carbon capture”
Read more 👉 scrapcc.org/BYLINE
11 Jun 2025
Lots of bad news in the spending review, today.
Commitment to expand Doncaster Airport and third runway at Heathrow (!!), plus new CCS at Acorn in Aberdeenshire and Viking in Humberside.
Plus it looks like - incredibly - resilience and adaptation are being shat on.
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Revealed: The £264 billion Price Tag of the UK’s Carbon Capture Strategy - @BylineTimes
“a colossal waste of money that actively worsens the climate crisis even with carbon capture”.
Read more 👉 scrapcc.org/BYLINE
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💲#SpendingReview money for gas with #CCS
❌ Just fuels the climate crisis
🚨 Read: this is just tip of iceberg as @thecccuk recommend £136bn gas and £128bn biomass with CCS 👉open.substack.com/pub/andrew…
💰 Mega money
⚠️ Mega damage to climate &ecology
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#ThinkAgainRachel - SubStack with @SiOldridge - open.substack.com/pub/andrew…
Reeves shld not pledge more to burn gas with #CCS #SpendingReview
🚨 Tip of iceberg
🧊 @thecccuk would spend £136bn for burning gas and £128bn for burning biomass with CCS
⚠️ Mega damage to climate &ecology
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Read my SubStack with @sioldridge
Why Rachel Reeves shld not make further funding pledges to burn gas with #CCS #SpendingReview
🚨 @theCCCuk recommend up to £136bn for power stations burning gas and £128bn for burning biomass with CCS (BECCS) to 2050
7 Jun 2025
Think again, @RachelReevesMP
Trump, scientists & now even Joe Rogan don’t think the sums add up for carbon capture & storage!
@DaleVince
@HughFW
@ChrisGPackham
Read: substack.com/inbox/post/1653…
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👂@melanieonnmp says #RachelReeves to fund carbon capture in Humber area
❌ #ThinkAgainRachel
Post👇 highlights this is misguided
✅ #ThinkAgainEd - review CCS v. science
🧑🤝🧑 Ask your MP to support
scrapcc.org/WRITE-TO-YOUR-MP…
🎥 scrapcc.org/CCS-FILM-TW1
1 Jun 2025
MP @melanieonnmp says the new Viking carbon capture cluster is a “game-changer” for the Humber. These clusters are centred around billions in public money for *new* fossil fuel plants—which will be as bad for the climate as coal.
Here’s why 🧵1/6
#FossilBasedCCS #CCScam
ALT Screenshot of Melanie Onn MP's letter to the Yorkshire Post advocating for the Government's carbon capture cluster in the Humber area, which mostly involves building new fossil fuel infrastructure under the fig leaf of carbon capture. Accessed here, but unfortunately behind a paywall. https://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/opinion/columnists/carbon-capture-and-storage-must-land-on-the-humber-to-help-uk-economy-take-off-melanie-onn-5147084
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