{"id":303663,"date":"2024-02-21T09:04:19","date_gmt":"2024-02-21T08:04:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=303663"},"modified":"2024-02-21T09:04:21","modified_gmt":"2024-02-21T08:04:21","slug":"welsh-government-backs-carbon-sequestration-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=303663","title":{"rendered":"Welsh Government Backs Carbon Sequestration Plan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Source\u00a0BBC<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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From Watts Up With That?<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Essay by Eric Worrall<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wales has some of the most expensive electricity in Britain<\/a>, but the financial geniuses who run Wales have a plan which will push energy prices up even higher.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Climate change: Plan to capture, ship and bury power station\u2019s CO2<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Steffan Messenger<\/p>\n\n\n\n

BBC Wales environment correspondent<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Plans have been proposed to lay new undersea pipes to carry carbon emissions from one of Europe\u2019s largest gas power stations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But it involves major building work across a protected marine habitat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Environmental group Friends of the Earth called for the money to be spent on renewable energy rather than keeping a gas plant going.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Despite being one of Wales\u2019 biggest emitters of CO2 it has an \u201cessential role\u201d in the country\u2019s transition to a greener future, according to its operator RWE.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis power station currently runs 80% of the time, in and around when there\u2019s insufficient renewable power [such as wind or solar],\u201d said Richard Little, who is leading the site\u2019s transformation as director of the Pembroke Net Zero Centre.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe need to build something that allows it to still operate at times when it\u2019s needed without impacting the climate,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2026Read more: https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/uk-wales-68296155<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Even Friends of the Earth thinks this idea is dumb.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How could building CO2 storage facilities, building an undersea pipeline, and chartering ships to be on standby for when CO2 needs to be buried in the North Sea have anything other than a devastating impact on already sky high energy prices? And of course, let\u2019s not forget the energy lost compressing the CO2 to the point it worth transporting, all of which will have to be paid for somehow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I lived in Wales for a while. I met a lot of intelligent and talented people in Cardiff, people who run small businesses, who given a chance would transform Wales into an economic powerhouse. But the Welsh people keep electing politicians whose radical left economic incompetence sabotages the entrepreneurial efforts of Wales\u2019 best and brightest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Wales has some of the most expensive electricity in Britain, but the financial geniuses who run Wales have a plan which will push energy prices up even higher.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":121246920,"featured_media":303668,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_crdt_document":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Wales has some of the most expensive electricity in Britain, but the financial geniuses who run Wales have a plan which will push energy prices up even higher.","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[691827065,691818154,691822239,691827066,691825799],"class_list":{"0":"post-303663","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"hentry","7":"category-uncategorized","8":"tag-carry-carbon-emissions","9":"tag-net-zero","10":"tag-rwe","11":"tag-undersea-pipes","12":"tag-wales","14":"fallback-thumbnail"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/0Screenshot-2024-02-21-090124-1.png?fit=1188%2C672&ssl=1","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paxLW1-1gZN","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":234179,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=234179","url_meta":{"origin":303663,"position":0},"title":"Claim: Welsh Government Wind Farm will Lower Electricity Prices","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"15\/12\/2022","format":false,"excerpt":"Obviously the illusion that renewables drive up prices is caused by greedy green energy developers,\u00a0right?","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/image-417.png?fit=1200%2C881&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/image-417.png?fit=1200%2C881&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/image-417.png?fit=1200%2C881&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/image-417.png?fit=1200%2C881&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/image-417.png?fit=1200%2C881&ssl=1&resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":262620,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=262620","url_meta":{"origin":303663,"position":1},"title":"Rural Welsh Rebel Against the Wind Farm Blight","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"17\/06\/2023","format":false,"excerpt":"Wales used to have two nuclear reactors, which between them used to produce significant amounts of zero carbon electricity from a much smaller footprint than all the wind farms the government wants to build. 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