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  • Published: Apr 25th, 2009
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New life for old king coal, but this time without CO2


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A new generation of coal-fired power stations is to be built to plug Britain’s energy gap, but ministers have insisted that they must be capable of stripping out and burying all carbon emissions by 2025.

The move aims to place Britain at the forefront of an international drive to master carbon capture and storage (CCS), an unproven technology that advocates say is critical to global efforts to tackle climate change.

But sceptics warned that Britain was taking a huge and potentially costly gamble with an immature technology that could force tens of thousands of British families into fuel poverty by driving up their bills.

The technology is expected to add at least

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