Consultation on the new infrastructure backbone of the Humber’s heavy industry decarbonisation plans is about to launch.
The low carbon dual pipelines set to transport greenhouse gases to North Sea storage while also supplying hydrogen to enable fuel-switching are to be put before the public. Stretching from Drax to Easington, sweeping below Goole, Scunthorpe and Brigg before a new crossing of the Humber from Killingholme to Saltend and out to the coast, thousands of new jobs are anticipated in what would be a staggering feat of engineering, while securing tens of thousands more at the locations it will serve.
The wider project is a government forerunner in carbon capture deployment, with the transportation system the lynchpin for what the Zero Carbon Humber and wider East Coast Cluster proposals set out to achieve, having been billed as making the Energy Estuary a world leader. Success is seen as driving the region forward as a competitive, climate-friendly hub for industry and innovation - with £15 billion of investment allied to the scheme from more than a dozen projects.
