Losers in the CCS competition

Losers in the Governments CCS competition are starting to emerge.

This project not chosen appears to have been designed as a network to capture CO2 from up to 18 different places - having a very large effect (60 million tonnes a year) on the regions CO2 emissions.

A shame that it wasn't chosen.

I suspect that it wasn't chosen because it would either have been too expensive, or it would have been too heavily focussed on reducing CO2 rather than demonstrating the technology - after all this competition isn't really about reducing CO2 on such a scale - the plant which will be built won't, as a starting point, be large enough to do that.

I also suspect that the individual sites had given a guarded yes, rather than a contractual "we'll love to put capture on our plant".
That could kill such a project.

Much less risky to choose something else.