A massive carbon capture scheme in the North East of Scotland has lost out in its bid for UK government funding in the first round.
The Acorn carbon capture, utilisation and storage (CCUS) project in Aberdeenshire will not form part of the UK’s initial attempt to bury polluting CO2 underground.
Energy minister Greg Hands confirmed the Scottish Cluster bid, which has the Acorn project as its backbone, has been selected as a “reserve cluster”.
But the SNP immediately condemned the "betrayal" of the North East and hopes to transition thousands of jobs out of the oil and gas industry into carbon capture.
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