UK CCS competition "dead on its feet" says expert

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Professor Stuart Hazeldine warns only Scottish Power can deliver CCS within the government's timetable

The UK's carbon capture and storage (CCS) competition is "dead on its feet" with only one of the three projects in the running capable of delivering a full scale working demonstration plant by the 2014...

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