Shell’s Peterhead CCS project gets political green light

Proposals for the world's first gas-fired power station to host a commercial full-chain carbon capture and storage (CCS) project at Peterhead in North-East Scotland received political backing from the local Aberdeenshire Council, on 18 June. Developed by Shell in partnership with Scottish and Southern Energy (SSE), the scheme - if realised - would capture up to ten million tonnes of CO2 over ten to 15 years, with emissions being transported to an underground North Sea storage site. The project is…