Extracts from Westminster Hall debate on UK Decarbonisation and Carbon Capture and Storage - Jan 24
Wednesday, 25 January 2017 08:32
Tom Blenkinsop (Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland)
(Lab):...Finally, I want to point to areas where carbon capture
technology is already proving cost-effective. Carbon capture and
utilisation technology captures CO2 produced by manufacturing
plants or smaller generators and uses that CO2 to produce highly
marketable green products. A British company, Carbon Clean
Solutions, currently leads the world in this technology and, as I
am sure the Minister is aware, has recently successfully...Request free trial
(Middlesbrough South and East
Cleveland) (Lab):...Finally, I want to point to
areas where carbon capture technology is already proving
cost-effective. Carbon capture and utilisation technology captures
CO2 produced by manufacturing plants or smaller generators and uses
that CO2 to produce highly marketable green products. A British
company, Carbon Clean Solutions, currently leads the world in this
technology and, as I am sure the Minister is aware, has recently
successfully implemented CCU technology on a commercial basis in
Tuticorin, India. Carbon Clean Solutions has
successfully managed to take the CO2 produced by a chemical plant
and produced soda ash, which in turn can be used to make glass,
paper and a range of other products. The fact that the soda ash
produced is green means it can be sold on at a premium to companies
attempting to reduce their environmental footprint...
...Will the Minister meet me and Mr Ani Sharma, the chief executive
officer of Carbon Clean Solutions, to discuss the potential of his
company’s technology and how the Government can help CCU technology
to mirror its commercial success in India closer to home? Carbon capture and
utilisation may not have the environmental impact that successful
large CCS projects would, but it can act as a stepping stone to
achieving those vital CCS projects that are the only way we will be
able to move towards a decarbonised energy sector....
(East Antrim)
(DUP):...According to the Scottish household survey,
there was a 25% increase in the number of households in fuel
poverty in Scotland between 2011 and 2013. In Northern Ireland,
there was an increase of nearly 100%. Why? Fuel bills go up because
we have decided we want to produce energy more expensively. That is
the first thing we need to realise in the debate. Decarbonisation
means significant costs to the economy. Of course, this is at a
time when we are talking about becoming more globally competitive,
and when China and India, which signed the Paris agreement,
tell us that every year they will increase their CO2 by the amount
of our total CO2 emissions...
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