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The Department of Energy and Climate Change (Decc) has signed an agreement to work with Canada on carbon capture and storage (CCS).
Energy minister Matthew Hancock signed a joint statement with Canada’s Department of Natural Resources to work together on research and knowledge sharing surrounding CCS.
The agreement also identifies how the UK and Canada will work together on wider international engagement, including the G7.
At the start of October, Canada switched on the first commercial-scale coal-fired CCS plant, the 110MW Boundary Dam project.
Hancock said: “CCS could help us tackle climate change. I welcome the fact that the UK and Canada will be working together to advance the technology.
“Our agreement is an important step forward for the carbon capture and storage sector, and I look forward to further UK-Canada cooperation.”
Two CCS developments in the UK have been awarded government funding for front end engineering and design (Feed) studies: the Peterhead project – a joint venture between Shell and SSE in Aberdeenshire – and the White Rose coal CCS project in Yorkshire.
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