Representation by Debbi-Jayne Challenger
- Date submitted
- 10 December 2023
- Submitted by
- Members of the public/businesses
We have just moved here. A long-awaited move to a place where coast and countryside collide. We chose this area because of the beautiful countryside, the close proximity to the sea, the wildlife and flora and fauna. This was meant to be our home for the rest of our lives This 'project', for want of a better word, did not come up on our searches with our solicitor so we are horrified that this is going to be on our doorstep. It absolutely has no place here, or anywhere. Carbon capture is not an effective solution to solving our climate problems. The technology is inefficient and expensive as it generates it's own emissions. It just seems to me it is being flaunted as a magical solution but it's not. All it is doing is allowing the big fossil fuel companies to continue instead of ending the fossil fuel era. The government should be looking at ways to stop producing it in the first place! It takes more energy to capture it and at what risks to our environment? Storage leaks could contaminate our groundwater and soil for a start! We are very much against it. We are concerned also at the safety aspect and our health, not to mention how visually, it will carve up our countryside, plus the noise and total disruption of setting it all up. This area has over 100,000 visitors a year. It concerns us greatly as to how all this will affect that. To sum up. It's a big fat NO. Look to other ways of reducing our carbon emissions as a country.