Carbon Budgets: Methane Flaring

Lord Blunkett Excerpts
Thursday 9th March 2023

(1 year, 2 months ago)

Lords Chamber
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Lord Callanan Portrait Lord Callanan (Con)
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The noble and gallant Lord deserves a longer answer than I have time for. CCUS is emerging technology. We have a huge programme of support and will be making announcements shortly about the track 1 cluster, to use the jargon, of some of the schemes that will be supported. There are a number of innovative schemes around the UK that deserve our backing.

Lord Blunkett Portrait Lord Blunkett (Lab)
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My Lords, will the Minister confirm that historically the capture of dangerous gases of this sort has been by our peat bogs? The protection of peat, particularly in the Pennine area, is crucial to this. What steps will the new department take to ensure that we can continue to protect those areas?

Lord Callanan Portrait Lord Callanan (Con)
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The short answer is it is not the responsibility of DESNZ but of Defra in terms of environmental protection, but I will pass on the noble Lord’s comments.