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Ed Miliband, the UK minister in charge of Climate Change and Energy has become EV-EON’s greatest fan by announcing the end of new coal fired power stations without carbon capture and storage (CCS)!

Clearly EV-EON’s ground breaking work demonstrating the viability of CCS has paid off - with fantastic implications for the future of coal and our climate.

The UK Government says that all new coal fired power stations, like ours at Kingsnoth, must capture at least 25% of their emissions. Then if CCS is proved to be technologically and economically viable these power stations will have to increase the amount they capture to 100% by 2025.

EV-EON’s chief executive Paul Golby said following the announcement:

“EON really welcomes this news. By using our innovative EV-EON bottling process which, we think can work, we are now free to build a new generation of coal fired power stations. With 60 million Brits ready to drink our ‘unnaturally carbonated water’ the future of coal is looking pretty rosy”

However there is one dark cloud lurking on the very distant horizon. If CCS is not proven viable by 2020 Ed insists our coal power stations will have to be closed down even if we’ve spent billions building them.

To make sure this doesn’t happen we’ve supplied Ed with an extra tight pair of EV-EON pants. Hopefully he’ll find the pressure round his crutch too intense to close down Kingsnorth and our EV-EON facility once we’re up and polluting.

Since the launch of EV-EON unnaturally carbonated drinking water, last April at E.ON’s Kingsnorth coal fired power station, it seems the innovative process has started to become mainstream.

China which is at the forefront of developing CCS will also have a plant up and running by July and according to Huaneng Power International will extract up to 3,000 tonnes each year and sell it to fizzy drinks companies like Coca-cola. Read more

Similar to EV-EON, Coke is using a ‘drink carbon save the planet’ narrative as has already proved effective with many other green products.

However, whilst this process of carbon capture does look promising it is unclear just how the company will restrain drinkers of the fizzy drinks from burping all that carbon dioxide back out into the atmosphere.

But then again detail has never been CCS’s strong point and it appears that, as at E.ON’s Kingsnorth site, CCS will again help make coal the real green alternative. Looks like Coke’s polar bear will keep his home after all.