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.
Until carbon capture bottled water is a reality or until it is proven commercially viable to pipe carbon dioxide under ground we cannot allow new coal fired power stations to get the green light. Here’s what you can do:
Help expose the carbon capture and storage myth by forwarding this site to a friend and talking about it to everyone you know.
Come along to the August 2009 Camp for Climate Action or find out how to get involved in the ongoing E-ON Face Off Campaign working to stop Kingsnorth being built.
Put pressure on the decision makers by doing one of these online actions.
Switch to an energy provider that doesn’t use fossil fuels, such as Good Energy, or urge your energy provider to support renewable energy.
Discover the alternatives to coal and the pathway to a Zero Carbon Britain by 2027.
Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) involves removing dangerous greenhouse gas emissions, like carbon dioxide, from the coal power generation process before it gets into the atmosphere.
The technology could be viable at some point in the future but…
“CCS is as yet unproven technology and we have to acknowledge there is some risk that safe and reliable CCS for power generation might not be proven or deployable at scale and at reasonable costs.”
- John Hutton, former UK Energy Minister
In April 2009, Ed Miliband the UK minister for climate change and energy announced that all new coal power stations must capture at least 25% of their emissions to win approval. Then IF CCS is proven to be economically and technologically viable they will need to capture all their emission by 2025.
EON’s Kingsnorth will almost certainly now gain government approval along with three other stations based on a hope that CCS will materialise. Kingsnorth will pump millions of tonnes of carbon into the atmosphere each year and under Ed’s plans for every tonne of carbon captured three will still be released to go on and drive climate change.
If the technology doesn’t materialise or is too expensive will the government of the day really close down these coal-fired stations? Sounds unlikely to us.
Like our EV-EON water carbon capture sounds great, but until it’s proven to work at scale new coal fired powers stations can’t be given the green light.
Find out what you can do and the alternatives to coal….
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