£200m announced to fund Peterhead carbon capture project

The energy secretary travelled to the North East to announce the plans.

Funding has been announced to develop the Acorn Project near Peterhead.

The energy secretary travelled to the North East to announce the plans outlined in the Spending Review yesterday.

Carbon Capture works by taking greenhouse gas emissions created through industrial processes, transporting it, in this case to the Acorn Project, through a re-purposed pipeline – before then being moved offshore through old gas pipelines to be buried under the seabed

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