Plans confirmed for UK industrial CCU plant: Has carbon capture's time finally come?

Madeleine Cuff
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Government hands out £26m in carbon capture funding, including to Tata Chemicals which plans to get the UK's first industrial scale facility running by 2021

The UK is set to have its first industrial scale Carbon Capture and Utilisation (CCU) plant up and running within the next two years, after the landmark project today secured government backing. Tata...

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