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The new government has a knotty problem on energy. It needs fiscal space to help billpayers, it want's new infrastructure to underpin the industrial strategy, and it will need decide on Rosebank/Jackdaw In a new piece for @ippr.org Stephanie Loo and I work through a potential part of the solution..

Sam Alvis

@samalvis.bsky.social

... a levy on oil and gas producers to support CCUS infrastrucutre, potentially freeing up government funding for other uses (or you know keeping CCUS alive altogether). www.ippr.org/articles/fin...

ippr.orgFinancing carbon capture, usage and storage: The case for extended producer responsibility | IPPRThere is a trade-off at the heart of the government's energy and economic policies. The government wants to respond to the public’s concern over rising cos

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Chris Littlecott

@chrislittlecott.bsky.social

13 Aug

Sam do you have more analysis on how the concept would be applied? Particularly how it would peak at 2.5m/t pa? Is that calculated only in respect to a single field (eg Rosebank but it could be any other), or against overall production volumes?