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Draft National Policy Statement for Fossil Fuel Electricity Generating Infrastructure (EN-2)

I have talked to the BP people about the project at Peterhead. The storage was to be in the depleted Miller oilfield, which was very conveniently placed. BP felt that it had to abandon the project in the end because it had asked for government support either for what will now be available for the demonstration projects or for the carbon price so that it would know what the carbon advantage of a fully economic CCS plant would be. They did not get either of those things from the Government. I am on record in Hansard as having described that on the Floor of the House to the noble Lord, Lord Rooker, as an absolutely disastrous decision by the Government.