Plans to establish what is billed as the UK's first carbon capture rail corridor have taken a step forward.
Liquid storage provider Navigator Terminals has signed a memorandum of understanding with energy from waste operator Enfinium that could see a rail link between the latter's Ferrybridge waste-to-energy plants and Navigator's Seal Sands site. The train service would transport carbon dioxide captured at the West Yorkshire facility to the Teesside site before it is shipped out to undersea aquifers for storage as part of the Net Zero Teesside and East Coast Cluster carbon capture project.
It is hoped the project - which comes after the Chancellor's announcement of £20bn funding for the sector - could open the door to other carbon emitters based in the North. The firms say the move will enable decarbonisation of one of the country's largest waste-to-energy plants.
