What a pity tax-breaks and financial encouragement wasn't offered to our coal mining industry in the 1980s. Clean-burn, carbon capture and sequestration would go a long way to mitigating our enegry shortfall

Yes. If the UK ever achieved gas surplus the Government would be only too pleased to encourage exports. Probably the best we could hope for would be a freeze for a couple of years, followed by annual RPI increases. World prices will always be the driving factor.

What concerns me more is the MIT report, no one could accuse that of being a paid report. If I lived in the proposed fracking area I'd make sure my MP was well aware.

Doesn't the current Ferrybridge PS incorporate some extensive cleaning equipment? Looks like it from the A1. Any feedback on how that performs?

Ferrybridge C was the "experimental" station for carbon capture and we did some work for the main contractor who was doing a complete refit over the past few years, I had a chat with one of the contract managers there one day and he explained what they'd been doing just before the turbines were fired up and the station went back online - basically it was only ever licenced for 25 years use when it was built in the 1960s, which was extended by another 15 years, and now its a flagship for biomass and carbon capture its future is basically open ended.

Drax and Eggborough were supposed to be next in line, our client operates at both of them but I know that the biomass plans were cut back when the current incumbant government came into power.

According to Wiki the current setup at Ferrybridge remove 95% of sulphur dioxide from its flues, which is pretty impressive.

Thanks. That's a_lot_of plasterboard.