The politicians are scrambling to take credit for this.
Bollocks.............. its being built there because of geography.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/clyvjg1vxego

And guess where it’s being built, on the old Redcar Steelworks site which was sold for next to nought and 2 local business men coined in millions selling it on. Their sons ate running around Bentleys and the parents living in mansions.
Ben Houchen is currently keeping his head ?

Yeah, we’ve heard all before, but nowt ever happened about it so….

Anyway carbon capture is a very debatable chemistry trick which would capture all the discharges from industrial production and store it…..but in all honesty it won’t protect us from anyone else’s output drifting across us.
The storage of the process by-product is usually cited as pumping it underground to store the gas, but it can seep up through the strata’s eventually surfacing some time later and affect the water bearing strata….unless stored in steel tanks but again how much storage would we need….?
Looks like a virtue signalling exercise by the UK because if the rest of the world carries on ignoring carbon capture our 1% will make no difference whatsoever.

What happens to the rest of the carbon in the atmosphere, do we suck it over to the U.K. store it ?

There’s the catch Jamie, we don’t but then why would we
Our atmospheric pollution would be replaced by others pollution drifting across, apparently it doesn’t respect borders..
Planting more trees would have exactly the same effect but be a lot cheaper and better to look at.
Just heard the power usage today was 80% gas…apparently the storm wreaked havoc with solar panel ‘farms’ and didn’t do the wind turbines any favours.

do not worry as when we get all our power from those sources there will never be a storm again as climate change will be reversed. they must think us thick bastards are as thick as they are.

Agreed Snowy what happens if the climate changes drastically like they keep forecasting we might even end up with less wind. The U.K. will be held to ransom as Miliband and co want to stop North Exploration and Production meaning we will be importing gas.

to be fair to him he wants us to rely on turbines and solar to avoid that solely even though from his own admission many will be against this. its a political decision and they will lie out of their back teeth to say how its working for the common good and any dissenters will be silenced or bullied into submission.

Jamie, they should have been building more nuclear plants years ago like the French….but oh no …both Tory and Labour bowed to pressure from that miniature but over influential green lobby … the majority count for nothing.

What majority? I doubt there's ever been a majority in favour of nuclear power in this country. It's a fair bet most people would say they don't know enough about the subject to have an opinion - but the Chernobyl disaster put the wind up plenty in the 1980s.

I don't doubt that modern nuclear reactors are excellent from a safety point of view and governments could do at lot more to get that message across. Meanwhile the Hinkley Point C fiasco isn't winning many people over - supposed to be completed in 2017 at a cost of £18 billion, will now allegedly be finished in 2031 at over double the cost.

Like everything in this country it takes ages and goes over budget.
What would you choose, wind turbines and solar panels or nuclear.
Frankly I’d stick with coal and gas fired power station but the clowns in power would have the vapours…even though we have plenty of it without needing to import it. Crazy.
Don’t forge, Millibands in charge..jeez…

Tidal is the future...just like Garlic Bread.

You’re 100% correct.