Drax Group CEO: CCUS key to achieving climate targets
Published by Claire Cuddihy,
Assistant Editor
World Coal,
Will Gardiner, Drax Group CEO, commented: “Climate change is the biggest threat to our planet – but if we take steps now the UK could lead the world in pioneering CCUS, needed to meet our climate targets. Supporting the development of the CCUS industry in the UK will generate jobs and economic growth here whilst creating new export opportunities, helping other countries to make the progress needed to meet global climate targets.
“Drax’s BECCS pilot plant has proven that the innovative carbon capture technology we’re using could be scaled up to create the world’s first negative emissions power plant, helping to remove the gases that cause global warming from the atmosphere at the same time as electricity is produced.”
Read the article online at: https://www.worldcoal.com/power/26042019/drax-group-ceo-ccus-key-to-achieving-climate-targets/
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