Energy & Science
Britain Is Getting Ready to Scale Up Negative-Emissions Technology
Government hasn’t yet said how it will spend money earmarked for carbon capture and storage.
Photographer: Simon Dawson/Bloomberg
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British companies are preparing for the U.K. government to decide how to spend more than $1 billion on infrastructure capable of capturing and burying millions of metric tons of carbon dioxide pollution.
The money — 800 million pounds — will go toward partially funding a “cluster” that captures emissions from factories and power stations by the middle of this decade. In a bid to shore up its climate credentials, the Conservative party made the promise to spend the sum in its manifesto, before it won a majority in the general election in December.