Having received the green light from the Prime Minister to start construction of the Liverpool Bay Transportation & Storage network in April, the HyNet carbon capture cluster today (Tuesday 5 August) gets another boost, as new projects enter negotiations with government and industry to join the world-leading site.
This will support a total of 2,800 direct, skilled jobs in total – such as engineers and construction workers – and unlock growth and investment right across the HyNet network, which spans Cheshire and Flintshire, News Cover reports, citing UK government.
New pipelines and manufacturing facilities will be constructed, and existing power plants will be repurposed to capture carbon emissions and store them safely under the seabed, reducing greenhouse gas emissions and tackling the climate crisis.
Carbon capture and storage forms part of the government’s modern Industrial Strategy and will help to cleanly power heavy industry in the years to come. It is expected to support up to 50,000 good jobs as the industry develops into the 2030s, reigniting the UK’s industrial heartlands and delivering on the government’s Plan for Change.
