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UK Energy and Climate Change Minister Ed Miliband is calling for the Government to adopt proposals that would say no to any new coal-fired power stations without carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology.
A new levy mechanism introduced in the Budget will raise funds to support up to three CCS projects in addition to the Governments existing plans to build a post-combustion demonstrator.
Within five years of CCS technology being independently judged to be technically and commercially viable, coal-fired power stations in the UK should undertake a full scale retrofit, he added.
In a nod to environmentalists who criticise any implementation of CCS technology, Miliband said that coal is necessary part of the countrys energy mix.
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