Oil and gas companies should be asking themselves whether they are investing in “the right kind of CCS”, its lead author said.

The ‘sustainability principles’ outlined in the document could in fact contribute to increased carbon emissions in the atmosphere, a policy analyst has claimed.

Responding to the analysis, Phil MacDonald, chief operating officer of Ember, said this was “exactly the kind of research that the UK government should be doing before it makes a decision on funding BECCS”. 

One expert called it a “systematic deceptive marketing campaign designed to interfere with the solution that is necessary to respond to the climate emergency: stopping fossil fuel production.”

Alan Whitehead said he supported Drax’s burning of trees for energy, despite criticism over its climate impact.

A new study finds that hydrogen fuel produced from water using renewable energy will be cheaper than natural gas-based hydrogen with carbon capture by 2030.

The Green Party accused Labour of helping the biomass energy producer engage in "green spin of the worst kind".

Blue hydrogen isn’t a clean energy source and the economics don’t work, but that does not appear to be slowing its rapid adoption being driven by the oil and gas industry.

From the U.S. to Japan, governments are quickly putting money behind oil and gas industry efforts selling blue hydrogen produced by natural gas with carbon capture as a clean fuel for the energy transition. But new research finds blue hydrogen may be no cleaner than burning natural gas.

Many climate plans rely on carbon capture and storage in some capacity to limit warming. But Chevron's latest struggles with an Australian project cast doubt on CCS as a reliable solution.