Mr. Peter O'Shea:

Carbon capture and storage technology is where one continues to burn the fossil fuel but the carbon is captured either pre or post-combustion and then transported to another site and stored so carbon does not find its way into the atmosphere. The different parts of the technology have been tried and tested. There are 3,000 km of carbon network in the US. It has not had the same push over in the past ten-odd years. We feel it is a technology that needs some further support. When one looks across the various road maps across Europe, one can see that generally carbon capture and storage features heavily in each of them as a means of ensuring that carbon is prevented from going into the atmosphere and that we can continue to run the system through a combination of renewables and thermal plant.