Gregory's ServerThis is MADNESS.
"The UK government will defy scientific doubts to place a massive bet on technology to capture and store carbon dioxide in undersea caverns, to enable an expansion of oil and gas in the North Sea."
Carbon capture/removal techniques (which don't even work yet) are not an excuse to keep burning anything. They're utterly pointless until we have decarbonised everything else as much as we can. Renewables are already cheaper & better - there's no contest.
@helenczerski Whilst it would seem reasonable to fund some modest R&D into CCS, just in case it turns up something, it is also only prudent to plan for a future without it.