Governments must 'get wallets out' for carbon capture, says CCS pioneer

Will Nichols
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Canadian utility SaskPower, which brought the first large scale CCS plant online this year, urges UK to put money where its mouth is

Stumping up public funds for carbon capture and storage (CCS) is the only way countries will get the technology off the ground, according to the developer of the world's first commercial scale carbon capture...

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