Carbon Capture and Storage

As an amendment to motion S4M-07974 in the name of Fergus Ewing (Carbon Capture and Storage), leave out from "is a critical" to end and insert "has significant potential as a transitional technology, allowing a more gradual reduction in reliance on fossil fuel consumption for electrical generation, if it can be shown to be efficient and commercially viable; notes that there are significant hurdles yet to overcome in the development of CCS, but recognises the positive role that Scotland may be able to play in overcoming these; is concerned however that CCS is seen by some as a pretext for increasing fossil fuel extraction, or even as a means of doing so through enhanced oil recovery, both of which would entirely undermine the climate change arguments for CCS, and encourages government and industry to proceed with research to determine the viability of CCS in the fight against climate change, but to guard against the view that CCS represents an alternative to reduced fossil fuel extraction and use."