Peak District cement firms launch plan for giant pipeline network carrying CO₂ emissions to Irish Sea

The companies believe that can capture more than 3million tonnes of carbon dioxide (CO₂) emissions a year from manufacturing sites such as the Breedon Hope cement works, and Tarmac’s Tunstead quarry – equivalent to taking 1.2m cars off the road – and then transport the gas via a network of underground pipelines to be locked away in the rock bed beneath the Irish Sea.

John Egan, project director for Progressive Energy, said: “Peak Cluster will cut Derbyshire and Staffordshire’s carbon dioxide emissions by a quarter. In doing so it will make a crucial contribution the UK’s drive to net zero, making a serious impact on local, regional and national climate change targets.