Bury CO2 at sea, says DTI

The government will this week unveil a radical new plan which it believes could solve the problem of greenhouse gas emissions for the next 60 years.

Energy minister Malcolm Wicks will on Tuesday announce a strategy for ‘carbon abatement technology’: effectively stripping out harmful carbon dioxide from power station emissions and pumping under pressure into exhausted North Sea oil fields.

Carbon capture and storage, as the technology is known, has gained ground in Whitehall as a method of cutting carbon dioxide emissions in the fight against global warming. It is being taken seriously at the DTI as well as the Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs and, most importantly, at the Treasury.

The Observer