The Acorn Project, the UK's First Carbon Capture and Storage Scheme
- Submitted by: Alexander Burnett, Aberdeenshire West, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party.
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 28 November 2018
- Motion reference: S5M-14979
That the Parliament understands that the UK’s first carbon capture and storage scheme, the Acorn Project, should be operational in Aberdeenshire by the mid-2020s; welcomes the £45 million commitment to develop the technology, which aims to stop greenhouse gases entering the atmosphere; believes that a further £175,000 of research funding from the UK Government has been announced for it with match-funding from the Scottish Government, and welcomes the plans for the project to capture around 200,000 tonnes of CO2 from the St Fergus Gas Terminal near Peterhead and transport it for storage to one of three depleted gas fields using existing pipelines.
Supported by:
Jeremy Balfour, Bill Bowman, Miles Briggs, Maurice Corry, Maurice Golden, Jamie Greene, Liam Kerr, Bill Kidd, Gordon Lindhurst, Richard Lyle, Tom Mason, Joan McAlpine, Margaret Mitchell, Gil Paterson, Alexander Stewart, Annie Wells