Cut spending on ‘fairytale’ carbon capture plans, campaigners urge chancellor

Chris Packham says £24bn scheme is ‘national embarrassment’ and joins calls for more funding to help households lower billsCampaigners are calling on the chancellor to cut the government’s £24bn spending plans for “fairytale” carbon capture technologies in favour of funding green schemes that can reliably cut emissions and lower energy bills.Environmentalist Chris Packham is leading an 11th-hour appeal for the Treasury to use this week’s budget to scale back the government’s “exorbitantly expens

Source: The Guardian (World)