Carbon Budgets: Methane Flaring Debate
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Lord Geddes
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Carbon Budgets: Methane Flaring
Lord Geddes Excerpts(1 year, 2 months ago)
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Lord Callanan (Con)
I am happy to arrange a briefing with officials for the noble Lord if he would like, but the technical difficulties are, first, technological, in that it requires a lot of new infrastructure and pipework to be installed, and some of the facilities that flare are oil platforms that do not have facilities to pipe the gas to shore. Secondly, there are huge economic costs associated with it; obviously, some of the infrastructure goes back to the 1970s.
Lord Geddes (Con)
My Lords, would this problem not be greatly reduced if we put more emphasis on tidal energy?
Lord Callanan (Con)
My noble friend is dogged in his determination to get tidal on the agenda. I agree with him that we need more renewable energy, and we have allocated a number of CfD contracts to different forms of tidal energy.