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Evening Standard
Alex Daniel

BP and Equinor to build major carbon capture projects in North East

BP will build one of the UK’s first carbon capture projects (Nicholas Ansell/PA) - (PA Wire)

Some of the first projects in Britain to take carbon out of the atmosphere will go ahead in the north east of England after BP and other energy firms confirmed investments on Tuesday.

The so-called East Coast Cluster, which will capture emissions from industrial sites around Teesside and store them at a site in the North Sea, will begin construction in mid-2025.

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