Go-ahead for 'clean' coal plants
Updated on 23 April 2009
The Energy Secretary Ed Miliband outlines plans for a new generation of cleaner coal-fired power stations.
The era of unabated coal is over, the government insisted today, as Mr Miliband told MPs that up to four plants could be built around Britain before 2020 - but only if they were fitted with technology to capture and store their carbon dioxide underground.
However, it is technology which has never been tested on a commercial scale and could cost billions of pounds in taxpayers' money to develop.
