CARBON-REDUCING measures for a £2bn coal-fired power station planned in Northumberland have been called into question by another leading environmental organisation.
Energy company RWE npower says its new clean-coal plant in Cambois would be carbon-capture ready – meaning it could be retro-fitted with special technology to greatly reduce harmful greenhouse gas emissions.
Now conservation charity WWF says that promising to install the unproven technology at some point after new generating plants have been built and are operating is not good enough.
It says the Government must act to ensure that no new coal-fired stations are built in the UK until carbon-capture technology has been proved to work on a large scale, and can be installed right from the outset.
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