Plans for huge pipeline across Yorkshire

People in the region are being asked their opinion about plans to build a huge pipeline from North to East Yorkshire.

It's to reduce the number of carbon dioxide emissions into the atmosphere, which contributes to global warming.

The carbon capture, transportation and storage (CCS) project involves capturing carbon dioxide produced by major power stations in the region – including the proposed Don Valley CCS Project and the White Rose CCS Project at Drax – and transporting it via a buried pipeline to a point south of Bridlington and then out to the North Sea, to be permanently stored within natural porous rock formations beneath the seabed.

Exhibitions will take place at nine locations along the preferred route for the pipeline including at Carlton, Barlow, Howden, Holme on Spalding Moor, Middleton-in-the-Wolds, Market Weighton, Hutton Cranswick, Wansford and Barmston. Local residents will be able to find out how the project has evolved since the previous series of exhibitions, held last summer, and give their views on the plans.

CCS could reduce the carbon dioxide emissions from power stations by up to 90 per cent and National Grid hopes this project would act as a trunk-line to a regional CCS network, capturing the carbon dioxide produced by numerous power stations and other energy intensive industries across the region.

National Grid intends to finalise its plans before submitting an application to the Planning Inspectorate, the body that considers applications for nationally significant infrastructure projects. A final decision will be taken by the Government.