Carbon capture not right for UK, claims Green Party

24 July 2010
Renewable energy could be more beneficial to the UK than carbon capture and storage technology.

This is the view of a spokesman from the Green Party, who has called for more emphasis to be put on offshore wind, among other energy sectors.

The representative cited Denmark's success story with renewable energy: "If we generated the same proportion of our electricity from wind farms as Denmark does, and at the rate of growth Denmark has achieved, we'd create about 200,000 jobs by 2020."

His comments follow a report from the Committee on Climate Change (CCC), which advised the government to protect funding for low-carbon technologies.

According to the CCC, the UK should focus its funding and support on a range of low-carbon sectors, including both carbon capture and storage and renewable energy from offshore wind and marine sources.

The government has promised to deliver a Green Investment Bank in order to supply much of the funding required to support new sustainable technologies.

Posted by Mark Stephens

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