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.
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