Lisa Nandy MP, Labour’s Shadow Energy Secretary, responding to news that Drax power station has dropped its carbon capture and storage scheme because of Government policy, said:

“With the only new nuclear power station delayed, new onshore wind farms being blocked, solar support being slashed by almost 90 per cent, and the Government’s carbon capture and storage strategy now unravelling too, Ministers must come clean on whether they are abandoning all efforts to secure investment in clean energy in this country.

“It beggars belief that the government is letting its climate change strategy fall apart just weeks before the landmark global climate change summit in Paris.”