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Rising cost of carbon capture is killing the great green hope

Rising costs have prompted new fears for one of the central planks of the ­Scottish ­Government’s strategy for cutting climate pollution.

Scottish ministers want to keep ­burning coal in power stations by ­developing technology to capture and store the carbon dioxide they belch out. But new evidence from Norway suggests that this could cost nearly three times more than expected.