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The sunsets at Drax Power Station, near Selby. PIC: Simon Hulme

Drax investment in the US raises questions of UK net zero approach - The YP says

Drax Power Station, near Selby. Picture by Simon Hulme

Drax seeks to open two multi-billion carbon capture plants in US

The Humber Industrial Cluster Plan has been launched

New plan for turning Humber's heavy industries green is launched

Carlton Hill, the £40m purpose-built student accommodation scheme being built by GMI Construction

Top score for construction work on £40m student accommodation scheme in Leeds

Drax Power Station in North Yorkshire is using imported wood. PIC: Simon Hulme

Government making unrealistic assumptions on decarbonisation - Chris Broome

Chancellor Rishi Sunak has so far resisted pressure to make the firms pay more tax, instead looking to companies making big profits to invest the cash back into the UK.

Shell fuels calls for windfall tax with record profits haul

Tesla has more than 2,500 Supercharger locations around the world

Tesla to open Superchargers up to other EVs later this year

Humber bridge

Biggest carbon capture and hydrogen plant in the world to be built in Hull

Coun Phil Ireland, Harrogate Borough Councils cabinet member for sustainable transport, tries out one of the three new rapid electric car chargers for public use at the councils civic centre.

Free! Charge your electric car at new Harrogate Civic Centre

Drax

Taskforce sets out North's energy future

Professor Mike Hounslow

Government funds to continue carbon research at University of Sheffield

The competition was abruptly scrapped by George Osborne in 2015.

£100m wasted on Yorkshire's '˜clean coal' bid

A fracking protest in Malton.

YP Letters: Fracking imposed against will of local people

Prime Minister Theresa May

Monday letters: No need for May to call an election

From: Keith Turnbull, Ryton Way, Doncaster.

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Mary Creagh

Carbon capture decision '˜may drive up costs'

Andrea Leadsom.

Minister defends carbon capture and storage decision

The White Rose Project was due to be built on the Drax site

Minister defends '˜sensible' decision to cut Yorkshire carbon capture cash

The White Rose Project would have been based at Drax

Scrapping CCS support '˜has damaged energy investor confidence'

Drax Power Station.

Carbon plant axe '˜risks climate deal'

Kevin Hollinrake

Yorkshire MP warns UK could miss out on fracking benefits

Drax

Funding cut deals blow to Yorkshire’s clean coal hopes

Letters September 30: Black days as coal scheme is ditched

Siemens will open a turbine assembly plant and blade manufacturing centre

Energy and Yorkshire’s Environment

How the White Rose Project might look

Ministers face call to back carbon ambition

Drax Power Station

Millions for Yorkshire green tech

YORKSHIRE could become a world hub for the embryonic carbon capture and storage industry creating thousands of jobs for the region after the European Union gave millions of pounds to a pioneering project in the region, according to Energy Secretary Ed Davey.

James Reed, Political Correspondent

Drax power station

EU gives multi-million Euro boost to Yorkshire clean coal project

It will pay not to use our last coal resources

Aerial 3D illustration of the White Rose CCS Project alongside Drax Power Station

Time to back pioneering Yorkshire technology, MPs tell Government

An illustration of how the White Rose Project would look

Decision on multi-million pound investment in energy technology is ‘just weeks a...

Coal ‘still has a future’ in the UK

The new BioMass plant at Drax Power Station. Picture by Simon Hulme

Three months to back clean coal plant in hunt for £250m grant

‘Make or break’ on clean energy

Health and Safety officer Andy Westley pictured by the new biomass plant at Drax Power Station. Picture by Simon Hulme

Cash committed for pioneering ‘clean coal’ power station

The site of the Drax power station

Firm still optimistic of building £3bn ‘clean power’ plant

The site of the Drax power station

Region eyes ‘clean power’ windfall

Paying the cost for green energy plans

Drax power station

Clean coal power station set for £300m windfall

EU slammed over funding ‘farce’

Committee chairman John Gummer, Lord Deben

2030 target will trigger massive cash investment

Minister hails green jobs boost for region

Boost for region’s clean coal plans

The first of four giant biomass storage domes being erected at the Drax coal-fired power station in North Yorkshire

Region poised to host ‘clean coal’ power station

Cost of playing power games

Contest for £1bn green prize ‘held under false pretences’

Fuel fund collapses as steel maker axes plant

‘Incompetent’ Davey misses out on massive grant from Brussels

Energy cash burns as Ministers dither again

No evidence to back call for low carbon future

Joy and shock at mixed fortunes for region’s ‘clean coal’ schemes

Yorkshire pipeline
‘would bring £1.3bn boost for economy’

Whitehall inertia ‘could cost region huge clean coal cash injection’

We will tap into Yorkshire’s huge green potential, Minister claims

Yorkshire: Clean coal action call by MPs to cash in on exports

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