A senior official from the Department of Business and Trade has told how the Humber low carbon agenda remains on the radar in Whitehall, despite a recent knock-back.
Industry stakeholders were left disappointed by March’s omission from the government’s forerunner plans for carbon capture and storage. The huge proposal linking Drax, the Keadby power cluster, British Steel and Saltend to depleted oil and gas caverns beneath the North Sea, while sending hydrogen in the opposite direction did not make the initial cut.
Marian Sudbury OBE, director of UK regions, was a guest of Hull and Humber Chamber of Commerce for the Expo lunch, with immediate past president Mike Whitehead pressing the issue, with the organisation having joined council leaders in writing and asking for an urgent rethink.
