Carbon capture is a fig leaf for fossil fuel expansion | Letters

The predicted £264bn cost by 2050 could be even higher, plus renewables avoid a far higher total of emissions than can be captured, writes Andrew Boswell , while Simon Oldridge calls out vested interests Prof Myles Allen and colleagues, in their letter ( 12 July ) on carbon capture and storage (CCS), propose licensing gasfields on condition that producers store an increasing proportion of “the carbon dioxide their products generate”. Their proposal only considers CO 2 . Methane is excluded by choice although it leaks throughout global fossil-fuel supply chains, including during extraction, pro