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Oil and Gas Industry

Proceeding contribution from Martyn Day (Scottish National Party) in the House of Commons on Tuesday, 9 October 2018. It occurred during Debate on Oil and Gas Industry.

I am grateful to my hon. Friend for his indulgence in giving way to me so many times.

Grangemouth has one of the country’s largest concentrations of energy-intensive industries in down- stream petrochemicals operations, and its development of a strategically located carbon capture and storage infrastructure in its industrial cluster may be essential to ensuring that those industries can compete in the low-carbon world that is coming in the future. I know that the Grangemouth site, INEOS and others are working with Imperial College as part of a wider collaboration to evaluate the feasibility of CCS for the UK. Does my hon. Friend agree that this developing technology would have been given a huge boost if the UK Government had not cancelled its CCS competition back in 2015, and that that decision demonstrated how they are failing the long-term interests of the industry?

Type
Proceeding contribution
Reference
647 c3WH 
Session
2017-19
Chamber / Committee
Westminster Hall
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