Resources

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Resources, links and other information

This page is designed to provide links to a wide range of relevant material.

There are thousands of sites that discuss these issues but we will try here to present a reasonably balanced selection to help you understand some of the issues associated with the Peak Cluster project and carbon capture.

News and analysis

The latest stories on CCS, Peak Cluster and related issues

  1. Peak Cluster Ltd.

    Project Update, September 2026

    21st Sep 2026

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  2. Derbyshire Times

    Derbyshire campaigners organise ‘solidarity’ walk against Peak Cluster carbon capture scheme

    By Jon Cooper · 18th Sep 2026

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  3. Dee Radio

    Peak Cluster carbon capture and pipeline project in Cheshire West and Chester

    Thursday, 17 September 2026 08:20

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  4. BBC

    Councillor vows to lie naked in mud over pipeline'

    Andrew Spence · 10th September 2026

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  5. BBC

    Zoo boss calls pipeline plan on site 'unacceptable'

    Georgie Docker and Mairead Smyth · 20th August 2026

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  6. EUobserver

    Carbon capture and storage is a costly white elephant – so why is the EU pushing it?

    Rachel Kennerley · 25 August 2026

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  7. The Guardian

    The great carbon capture con: behold the wasted billions Burnham could claw back

    George Monbiot · Wed 8 Jul 2026

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  8. Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis

    How carbon capture is failing the capital discipline test

    11 August 2026

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  9. Steelwatch

    Why carbon capture and storage does not solve the climate problem of blast furnaces

    Caroline Ashley, Constantin Johnson · 18 June 2026

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Background

About carbon capture and storage

  1. British Geological Survey

    Understanding carbon capture and storage

    Since the mid-1990s, BGS has been researching how carbon dioxide (CO₂) can be stored in rocks under the ground. Carbon capture and storage (CCS) is one way Britain and the world can maintain industrial production and economic growth while reducing emissions.

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  2. Food & Water Watch

    Why carbon storage is a bad idea

    The promise of carbon capture and storage is that it should permanently keep CO₂ out of the atmosphere and prevent more climate change. But permanence is far from guaranteed.

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  3. Zero Carbon Analytics

    A closer look at CCS: problems and potential

    Although carbon capture and storage (CCS) has potential to reduce emissions from sectors that are difficult to decarbonise, almost all of the world’s 41 operational CCS projects are connected to the production or use of oil and gas.

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  4. Health and Safety Executive

    Major hazard potential of carbon capture utilisation and storage

    This page explains the major hazard potential of carbon capture utilisation and storage (CCUS) and will help CCUS licensees, operators and owners understand their duties.

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  5. Environment Agency (UK Government)

    Scoping the environmental impacts of carbon capture, transport and storage

    This scoping guideline provides information on the most likely potential environmental impacts of the CCS chain, focusing specifically on the environmental issues under the Environment Agency’s remit.

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  6. Institute for Energy Economics & Financial Analysis

    The good, the bad, and the ugly reality about CCS

    Carbon capture and storage (CCS) is a 50-year-old technology with variable results in capturing and storing carbon dioxide.

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  7. Clean Air Task Force

    Capturing public trust: social acceptance of CCS in Poland

    Communities must be treated as partners in CCS deployment — well-informed, actively heard, and benefit-sharing partners — instead of reduced to the role of passive audiences for pre-determined decisions.

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  8. Institute for Energy Economics & Financial Analysis

    Offshore CO₂ storage is a risky business

    The injection and geologic storage components of CCS pose numerous risks, which are either being underestimated or completely ignored by the industry as it looks to sell the technology.

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Safety

About the safety of carbon dioxide pipelines

  1. U.S. Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA)

    Failure investigation report — the Satartia incident

    On 22 February 2020, a carbon dioxide (CO₂) pipeline ruptured near the community of Satartia, Mississippi. The rupture followed heavy rains that resulted in a landslide, creating excessive axial strain on a pipeline weld.

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  2. U.S. National Public Radio (NPR)

    CO₂ pipelines: one poisoned town wants you to know its story

    Emergency director Willingham says in an ideal world these CO₂ pipelines wouldn’t get built. If they are, he thinks everyone needs to learn about Satartia: “Do you want to live on that pipeline?”

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  3. Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI)

    Risks and safety of CO₂ pipeline transport

    The transportation of carbon dioxide via pipeline from capture facilities to storage sites is associated with considerable health and environmental risks.

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  4. GEXCON

    CO₂ hazards in carbon capture, utilisation and storage (CCUS)

    Although CO₂ can be naturally present in the atmosphere and is generally considered harmless in small amounts, managing it in the large volumes required for CCUS presents significant risks.

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  5. Simon Gant (Health and Safety Executive, UK)

    Skylark CO₂ dispersion project

    Knowledge gaps in CO₂ pipeline risk assessment — PowerPoint presentation on dispersion modelling and safety research.

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  6. DNV

    Project Skylark — webpage and brochure

    Challenges posed by the significant scaling up of CCS. The focus is on understanding and mitigating risks associated with the transportation of CO₂ from industrial sources to storage facilities through both onshore and offshore pipelines.

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  7. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Climate Portal

    Are there risks to transporting carbon dioxide in pipelines?

    CO₂ pipeline accidents have been rare, but as with pipelines carrying oil, natural gas or hazardous chemicals, if ruptures are allowed to happen they can be very serious. Building CO₂ pipelines far from people, and ensuring emergency procedures are in place, can reduce risks if ruptures do happen.

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  8. Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL)

    Deep trouble: the risks of offshore carbon capture and storage

    Carbon capture’s poor track record has not stopped polluters from touting the promise of CCS and the possibility of turning the seabed into a storage site for their CO₂ waste. But offshore CCS is no solution to fossil fuel pollution — it represents a new threat to the world’s oceans and a dangerous distraction from real progress on climate change.

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