Mr. Brendan Murphy:

I agree that the UK had moved away from CCS but I believe it is now moving back towards it. The UK climate change committee has, in the past couple of weeks, published a report advocating CCS very strongly. Several gas networks in the UK are looking at separating natural gas into hydrogen and CO2, and storing the CO2, as a solution.

They are pushing back on it again because they realise electrification is not the silver bullet. There are several power plants up and running in the US, Canada and China where the CO2 from exhausts is captured and stored. These are not pilot projects but large-scale, million tonne per annum plus capture projects which are working. They had some initial teething problems but they are working well. That is my view on where carbon control and sequestration, CCS, is at the moment. One has to be sure it is safe and secure. When one gets to that level of comfort, it would be much cheaper than most of the alternatives.