All they needed was unlimited money and it would have worked…
From the BBC:
Labour’s shadow energy minister Tom Greatrex said: “Today’s move highlights the dead hand of the Treasury in scuppering moves towards a greener energy mix.
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“Without those guarantees the government’s commitment to energy, the environment and green jobs will be increasingly viewed as all talk, no action.”
Dr Dixon of WWF Scotland said the news was “massively disappointing”.
He said: “If technical and economic hurdles can be overcome CCS has the potential to help reduce emissions at thousands of coal power stations around the world.
“However, almost four years after launching its funding competition, plans for CCS in the UK have descended into farce.”
Juliet Swann, head of campaigns at Friends of the Earth Scotland, said: “The UK government failing to support the application to its necessary extent from the outset is not just an indication of their hypocrisy over climate change, but also shows how little interest they have in investing in Scotland.”
Full story at the BBC
Don’t worry, UK, the U.S. has committed U.S. taxpayers to bail you out:
http://dailybail.com/home/holy-bailout-federal-reserve-now-backstopping-75-trillion-of.html
I wonder if Mr. Huhne considered eliminating his department and transferring those funds to work on the technical problems at Longannet.
AW just an idea for the sticky posts maybe link the first post to “other posts below etc,,” at the sticky post. cheers VG
“If there was a completely unlimited resource then we may have been able to surmount the technical problems at Longannet,” Mr Huhne said.
If there was a completely unlimited resource then they may have been able to pipe the CO2 to the moon.
We got a hint at the Conservative party conference when George Osbourne downgraded the UK’s ambitious CO2 policy so it would not exceed that of any other EU member state.
We are still waiting for the Crown Prosecution Service to decide if Chris Huhne is going to become an ex-minister due to some possible fiddling of a speeding ticket. They were supposed to decide by the end of last month but there seems to be some delay.
“Without those guarantees the government’s commitment to energy, the environment and green jobs will be increasingly viewed as all talk, no action.”
If only it were all talk and no action.
“zac says:
October 19, 2011 at 2:17 pm
….Chris Huhne should never have been made responsible for the UK’s energy policy.”
Yes he should, how else could you make green energy policy look so stupid and untrustworthy so quickly?
Interesting;
http://www.australianclimatemadness.com/2011/10/csiro-boss-is-director-of-carbon-sequestration-company/
zac says:
” i await with baited breath”
Wow, what did you have for dinner?
If the financial crisis halts the AGW gravy train, which media outlet will take it’s red and green shirt off first? CNN, BBC and ABC must all be watching and calculating when is the best time to jump horses. They all want to be the first with the news and none of them wants to be the last to report what is going on. There must be a threshold which will trigger these MSMs to jump, and it must be financial somehow. But which will be first?
Smokey says:
October 19, 2011 at 2:52 pm
“Don’t worry, UK, the U.S. has committed U.S. taxpayers to bail you out:
http://dailybail.com/home/holy-bailout-federal-reserve-now-backstopping-75-trillion-of.html
”
Oh. Thanks. Guess we can keep Greece afloat then for the time being.
“If there was a completely unlimited resource then we may have been able to surmount the technical problems at Longannet,” Mr Huhne said.
If wishes were horses, all beggars would ride.
Meanwhile that idiot, Huhne, is getting his knickers in a twist about fracking and shale gas.
Seems some minor earth tremors (mag 2.5 and 1.3- instrumentally detected) warrant a “moritorium” on a potential 200 trillion cuft of gas.
I thought we had a financial crisis?
Talk anot “fiddle while Rome burns”.
““If there was a completely unlimited resource then we may have been able to surmount the technical problems at Longannet,” Mr Huhne said.”
Yes that is a very odd statement. Britain has at least 900 years of coal resources and unquantified shale gas. So will Mr Huhne also reject those strategic energy resources on technical grounds?
Juliet Swann, head of campaigns at Friends of the Earth Scotland, said: “The UK government failing to support the application to its necessary extent from the outset is not just an indication of their hypocrisy over climate change, but also shows how little interest they have in investing in Scotland.”
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Invective with a guilt kicker, doesn’t impress the unwashed masses anymore.
We have access to more data than you can imagine, try again.
They don’t call him Crazy Hoon for nothing.
CCS will not make for inexpensive energy. As a kid I watched a train go to our nearby coal fired power plant everyday hauling 100 train cars of coal. When it is burned there is twice as much CO2 produced (~200 train cars as liquid CO2) as there was coal to start with, If you could store years worth of that much CO2 safely (which you can’t) there is no way you could do it cheaply… thus energy from coal would be expensive… which is why the greenies liked the solution to start with. Coal with CCS is utterly inane from both a cost and safety aspect.
And, of course, CCS is completely pointless.
What Drives Global Warming?
A purely data-driven modelling approach finds:
I.e., AGW is horse pucky all the way down.
This so-called ‘energy minister’ (Huhne) was also on TV ‘sympathising’ with hardpressed energy consumers and defending his position by insisting customers should ‘shop around for the best deal’ – totally glossing over the £100’s of ADDITIONAL payments the UK consumer is saddled with to pay for HIS pet green projects. Grrrrrr……
This was then followed up by our local TV station (BBC Scotland) reporter, “on the scene”, spouting that CO2 was ‘pollution’……. fume……….
The BBC not once indicated any other stance – showing them up as the BIASED, left-wing corruption that they have (nearly) always been.
Latitude says:
October 19, 2011 at 2:24 pm
So we have nut jobs here protesting a pipe line…..
…but in the UK they were planning on building a 260km pipe line to pump liquid CO2 emissions, under pressure, to deep wells in the bottom of the North Sea
There is a total disconnect with all of this mess………………………
Yeah, what if the pipeline broke and all that CO2 escaped?
At least the UK government has finally seen the economic and technological folly of CCS.
Those in the White House revived a CCS project that was abandoned by the previous wise administration because it was overrun and not getting anywhere. Maybe they should learn from others failures.
No, this dispuresment of taxpayer and Chinese dollars goes to the corrupt political machine in Chicago.
Another Solyndra??
“The US Department of Energy (DOE) this week announced investments of $41 million in 16 post-combustion carbon capture projects.
The funds will be invested in projects that aim to reduce the cost of carbon capture, by developing advanced post-combustion technologies that can be applied to new and existing power plants.”
http://www.energyefficiencynews.com/i/4436/
At least there is an upside to having a broke government. And anyway, what is the problem with emitting CO2 anyway, it’s not like it changes the climate or anything is it?
DAVE G
Saw that too.Made my blood boil, blaming draughty houses and lack of insulation as the major cause of fuel poverty.Nothing to with the green energy cost £200+ per house hold per year and rising and selling off of our energy providers and then the privertised energy companies selling off land on which they had for stocking piling oil, gas, for winter,which was always done when it was in national ownership.
Am I the only one who noticed that the folks involved repeatedly called the CCS project a “scheme”?
Or does “scheme” have a more positive definition in the UK than here in the US?
Ponzi scheme, pyramid scheme, etc.
Scam, an attempt to swindle, as in scheming.
Latitude says:
October 19, 2011 at 2:24 pm
So we have nut jobs here protesting a pipe line…..
…but in the UK they were planning on building a 260km pipe line to pump liquid CO2 emissions, under pressure, to deep wells in the bottom of the North Sea
There is a total disconnect with all of this mess………………………
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Good point.