Shapps gives go-ahead for UK’s first carbon capture power station

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Power plant in North Lincolnshire will capture up to 1.5MT of carbon each year

Grant Shapps has given the green light for the construction of the first UK power station equipped with technology to capture carbon from its emissions. 

The Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy yesterday granted development consent for the Keadby 3 Carbon Capture Power Station in the Humber. 

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