CCS chief: Europe has lost its way on carbon capture

Will Nichols
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New CCS Association chief executive calls on UK and Europe to send longer term signal to encourage investment into the 2020s

As you might expect Luke Warren, newly-appointed chief executive of the Carbon Capture and Storage Association (CCSA) has lofty ambitions for an industry that in some quarters has been hailed as the Holy...

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