Plans for the UKs first “Clean Coal” plant have been cancelled amid spiraling cost projections from the consortium of Scottish Power, Shell and National Grid who now think £1.5bn of public funding is required.
Even using the roughest estimate of £3m per turbine that would would pay for around 500 offshore turbines.
The Government are continuing to back this horse despite it losing yet another leg.
No new coal file plants should be built UNTIL carbon capture has been tested and deployed at full scale.