EU vote will spell out future of carbon capture
7 Oct 2008
A vote in the European parliament tonight could back 10 billion euros aid for an untested technology called carbon capture and storage (CCS), which many scientists and economists consider the key to fighting climate change.
EU approval would be by far the world's biggest endorsement of CCS, and pour subsidies into companies which aim to trap the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide from coal plant smokes stacks and then pipe them underground - including engineering and oil and gas companies as well as utilities.
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