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Salmond attacks UK government letter on Peterhead Print E-mail
Friday, 22 June 2007

First Minister Alex Salmond has expressed his frustration at the UK government's statement that it is not possible to revisit plans for a carbon capture project at Peterhead. 

Salmond received a letter yesterday from Trade and Industry Secretary Alistair Darling on the Peterhead carbon capture project in which he says that he does "not consider that it is possible to revisit the proposals for the [carbon capture] competition".

Salmond said: "This is deeply disappointing, the Westminster government are missing one of the great industrial and environmental opportunitinities of our times by allowing the timetable for the competition to slip so carelessly.

"What makes it particularly infuriating is the speed with which Aberdeenshire Council and MSPs moved to support this important project and potentially planet saving technology.

"Only Westminster was asleep on the job and has dealt the project a near fatal blow. Alistair Darling is in severe danger of being known as the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry who flung away the opportunity of a world lead in one of the dominant technologies of the century.

"It is true that there will be other carbon capture projects in future but London is flinging away a world leading opportinity for Peterhead and Scotland."
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