- Asked by: Liam McArthur, MSP for Orkney, Scottish Liberal Democrats
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Date lodged: Monday, 07 September 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Mather on 18 September 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive how it will encourage new coal-fired power stations to operate carbon capture and storage from the outset or to be able to meet an equivalent emissions performance standard by other means.
Answer
The Scottish Government''s thermal guidance will set out policy on the development of CCS technology for both new and existing power plant. This guidance will be issued following consideration of responses to our consultation on this subject last year and the completion of the UK consultation process.
- Asked by: Liam McArthur, MSP for Orkney, Scottish Liberal Democrats
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Date lodged: Monday, 07 September 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Mather on 18 September 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it considers it acceptable for new coal-fired power stations to have a defined carbon capture and storage capacity of no more than 400 megawatt (gross).
Answer
The Scottish Government will issue its final thermal guidance later this year following the completion of the UK consultation process. This thermal guidance will set out policy on the introduction of CCS levels to new and existing power plant, in terms of timing and capacity.
- Asked by: Liam McArthur, MSP for Orkney, Scottish Liberal Democrats
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Date lodged: Monday, 07 September 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Mather on 18 September 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive what minimum percentage of a new coal-fired power plant’s gross output of emissions it considers should be able to be covered initially by carbon capture and storage.
Answer
The Scottish Government will issue its final thermal guidance later this year following the completion of the UK consultation process. This thermal guidance will set out policy on the introduction of CCS levels to new and existing power plant, in terms of timing and capacity.
- Asked by: Liam McArthur, MSP for Orkney, Scottish Liberal Democrats
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Date lodged: Monday, 07 September 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Mather on 18 September 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive when it was decided to include Hunterston power station in the second National Planning Framework and what consultation has been carried out on its inclusion.
Answer
A new clean coal power station and a transhipment hub at Hunterston were among the projects proposed by stakeholders as additional national developments in representations on the NPF Discussion Draft. These projects were assessed against the criteria for national developments announced in a statement to Parliament by the Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Sustainable Growth in September 2007 and subsequently included amongst the candidate national developments which were subject to a Supplementary Strategic Environmental Assessment, including consultation, in autumn 2008. The NPF has also been the subject of detailed consideration by three committees of the Scottish Parliament and a debate in Parliament on 5 March 2009, ensuring a high level of scrutiny of the spatial strategy and national developments. The National Planning Framework Participation Statement available on the Scottish Government''s website details the full extent of consultation during the preparation of NPF2.
- Asked by: Liam McArthur, MSP for Orkney, Scottish Liberal Democrats
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Date lodged: Monday, 07 September 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Mather on 18 September 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive when it expects to produce its thermal generation guidance.
Answer
The Scottish Government will issue its final thermal guidance later this year following consideration of responses to our own consultation and the subsequent UK consultation which closed on 9 September 2009.
- Asked by: Liam McArthur, MSP for Orkney, Scottish Liberal Democrats
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Date lodged: Monday, 07 September 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Mather on 18 September 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it considers it premature to consider a planning application for a development, for the basis of which it has not formulated policy.
Answer
Under section 36 of the Electricity Act 1989, the building of any new thermal power station in excess of 50 megawatts in generating capacity would require consent from Scottish ministers. The Scottish Government published draft thermal guidance in late 2008 for consultation. We await the completion of the UK Government consultation, before publishing our final thermal guidance in Scotland.
- Asked by: Liam McArthur, MSP for Orkney, Scottish Liberal Democrats
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Date lodged: Monday, 07 September 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Mather on 18 September 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive for what reason proposals for a coal-fired power station at Hunterston were not included in the public consultation on the second National Planning Framework.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-27009 on 18 September 2009. All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament''s website, the search facility for which can be found at
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/Apps2/Business/PQA/Default.aspx.
- Asked by: Liam McArthur, MSP for Orkney, Scottish Liberal Democrats
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Date lodged: Monday, 07 September 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Mather on 18 September 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-24912 by Jim Mather on 17 June 2009, whether it intends to publish thermal generation guidance for Scotland based on a consultation applicable only to England and Wales.
Answer
Thermal generation guidance for Scotland will be based on the revised section 36 guidance for the development of thermal power stations which was published in late 2008 for consultation. In addition to this consultation process, we have also had on-going engagement with Scottish based stakeholders on the development of carbon capture and storage through a series of seminars and meetings. The UK consultation invited respondents with a particular interest in Scottish Government policy to copy their responses to Scottish ministers. We have also been working closely with DECC on the current consultation and held a workshop where Scottish Government and others discussed the consultation with DECC officials. Scottish ministers are currently considering the consultation responses and their decisions will be further informed by responses to the UK consultation.
- Asked by: Liam McArthur, MSP for Orkney, Scottish Liberal Democrats
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Date lodged: Monday, 07 September 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Mather on 18 September 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it aims for new coal-fired power stations in Scotland to demonstrate carbon capture and storage capacity greater than that required in England and Wales.
Answer
The Scottish Government aims to encourage early carbon capture and storage deployment in Scotland with the objective of decarbonisation of the electricity sector by 2030.
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- Asked by: Liam McArthur, MSP for Orkney, Scottish Liberal Democrats
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Date lodged: Monday, 07 September 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Mather on 18 September 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive what progress has been made on the development of an emissions performance standard for power plants in Scotland.
Answer
The question of an emissions performance standard was raised in response to our consultation on draft thermal guidance last year. It was also discussed in the recent UK consultation on clean coal. Responses to this consultation have been copied to the Scottish Government. We are working closely with the UK Government on this matter and will consider our position once this process is complete.
