Warren Buffett-backed Occidental Petroleum agreed to buy Canadian startup Carbon Engineering for $1.1 billion as the oil producer expands its position as a leader in removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.
My eldest son is an aerospace engineer and lives and works in Seattle on the US West coast. He’s built a career in an industry which nowadays offers few opportunities in Scotland nor many in other parts of the UK.
Worley has been awarded a services contract with Occidental to help develop a facility for producing low carbon fuels via direct air capture (DAC) in Canada.
British billionaire Richard Branson’s airline, Virgin Atlantic, has signed up to use a technology that will suck carbon-dioxide directly from the north-east sky before locking it away.
I watched the BBC documentary about Greta Thunberg travelling the world with her father Svante in a quest to better understand climate change and how to combat what has undeniably become a crisis triggered by the human species.
A low carbon technology project, which is being developed by a leading north-east clean energy firm, has been awarded a grant worth almost a quarter of a million pounds.