The Tories have decided to build and run a "carbon capture and storage" plant at the cost of 50 billion dollars, if fully implemented.

"Carbon capture and storage", if it works, will reduce greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. We will need to do that in he future, once we have cut greenhouse gas emissions, if we have damaged forests and algae so much that they can't remove the excess CO2 we will have emitted.

However, what we need now is to reduce the rate of increase down to zero, and the money used for this absurdly expensive system could achieve a lot more of that if spent on building renewable generation, battery storage, and grid enhancement.

I suspect that the Tories' decision was intended to please those who will get that money.