An ambitious carbon capture and sequestration project is being discussed in Yorkshire, the Yorkshire Post reports. If implemented it could reduce the country’s CO2 emissions by more than 10 per cent and create tens of thousand of green jobs. The project centers around the Hatfield power station near Doncaster, which would be converted with the aid of European Union funding to a “clean coal” plant/Local planning authorities have laid out ambitious proposals for a huge network of CO2 pipelines running from the Aire Valley out across the Humber estuary to depleted gas fields in the North Sea, allowing every major polluter in the region to bury its carbon emissions - the gases largely responsible for global warming - deep beneath the seabed.

If successfully implemented the project could be in operation by 2030 and create more than 50,000 new jobs.