Carbon Capture and Storage

That the Parliament believes that carbon capture and storage (CCS) is a critical technology and component in the decarbonisation of Scotland’s energy supplies; recognises that Scotland has strong comparative advantages to develop a CCS industry; further recognises the potential for jobs and enhanced oil recovery that CCS can bring to the country; supports the UK Government’s CCS commercialisation competition but would like to see swifter progress through the next stages; considers that the announcement of the Peterhead Power Project as a preferred bidder is an important development of CCS on a commercial scale, but that, if a fully-developed CCS industry is to flourish, the UK's CCS competition must have more than the two preferred bidders, and understands the importance of the UK Government continuing to encourage and incentivise other highly-innovative CCS projects such as the Captain Clean Energy Project.