Something’s burning

Yesterday, a fire broke out at a new £170 million facility being built at Longannet Power Station in Fife. The blaze happened in an area next to the main power facility where a Flue Gas Desulphurisation Unit – a facility that will help capture sulphur gases, allowing more of Scotland’s sulphurous opencast coal to be [...]

No such thing as ‘clean coal’

Clean coal technology like this is at work right now in a coal-fired power station near you Energy companies putting in bids to run new coal-fired power stations have been quick to seize upon carbon capture and storage (CCS) as the ideal solution to their biggest problem – explaining why they’re so keen to return [...]