Today’s Solutions: August 17, 2026

The British government said Monday it was ready to sign off on a North Sea carbon capture and storage program for a Scottish power station. Royal Dutch Shell is proposing, with strategic assistance from British energy company SEE, to capture the carbon dioxide emitted from an Aberdeen power station and store it in the Goldeneye reservoir in the North Sea. The British Geological Survey conducted an external review of Shell’s Peterhead carbon capture and storage…

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