Last resort
The Environmental Audit Committee, earlier today
We don’t want to be supercritical about all this talk of new coal-fired power stations, but everyone is pitching in to point out how rubbish new coal would be - even respected parliamentary bodies.
The Environmental Audit Committee are a good bunch, who often dedicate their time to pointing out the many holes in the Government’s badly-thought out environment policies. Today, they published a pretty damning report on Carbon Capture and Storage, confirming that it’s unlikely “CCS would be widely deployable before 2020″, and that therefore:
“… the possibility of CCS should not be used as a fig leaf to give unabated coal-fired power stations an appearance of environmental acceptability”
[ie: Kingsnorth should not be given the go-ahead].
Hear hear, say we.
The old boys (and girls) go on to say:
“Coal should be seen as the last resort, even with the promise of CCS.”
Will the Government listen?
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