Dear Editor,
It sounds like common sense that if global warming is caused by too much carbon in the atmosphere, we should remove that carbon.
If we stop producing more carbon and get existing carbon out of the air, then global warming will be under control.
The government is proposing £22 billion over the next 25 years for CCS “Carbon Capture and Storage” as that big magic technological fix we need to help solve a global problem.
But in fact UK taxpayers will be funding more carbon, not the technology and projects to capture existing carbon in the atmosphere.
Through HyNet the fossil fuel companies and heavy industries will keep producing more carbon, funded by us.
Across Cheshire, HyNet claims it will develop new carbon capture systems even though this would be a world first not yet happening anywhere else!
HyNet also say they will produce “blue” hydrogen from natural gas, and capture CO2 from gas fuelled power stations.
The companies behind HyNet are the same old chemical and fossil fuel industries determined to carry on their “business as usual”, keep their excessive profits, and still produce ever more carbon.
And HyNet is also attracting waste companies to locate in the area, which along with all the other additional industrial infrastructure in the area, will exacerbate existing local health disparities, such as cancer rates at 16% above the national average.
HyNet claim they will build these “high pressure pipelines”, capture CO2, and store it offshore underground in depleted oilfields.
You can see some of these underground pipelines being started by HyNet across Cheshire, while councils, residents and landowners have little say about where.
All the risks of this CCS trial failing in a few years will be carried by the taxpayer, not the companies really behind HyNet. Meanwhile energy bills for our homes and industry keep rising, and we still see more global warming.
Much better sustainable and readily available alternatives are proposed by HyNot, see www.hynot.uk
HyNot believe that this scheme supported by currently polluting industries is a “false solution” that only locks Cheshire into continued fossil fuel dependence.
This trial project just delays the transition to renewables, which is urgent, and will leave future generations with a worsening climate and do little about Net Zero by 2050.
Please support HyNot and sign the petition to Parliament at Pause UK offshore CCUS.
Dave Plunkett
Chester
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