PROPOSALS for an underground pipeline to transport carbon dioxide across Yorkshire into the North Sea to be stored within natural porous rock, has been revealed by the National Grid.

The proposed route announced by National Grid would start in Stainforth, near Doncaster, where it will capture carbon dioxide emissions from the 2Co Energy Don Valley Power project. It will then run between Goole and Selby, south of Market Weighton and north of Beverley and finally south of Driffield towards the coast.

It will leave the land at one of three possible sites, near Fraisthorpe, Barmston or Skipsea, and then go under sea to a suitable storage site.

The infrastructure is expected to be able to be used by other power generators or large carbon emitters in Yorkshire, including Drax Power Station, which hopes to build a demonstration project at its Selby site and has submitted a joint bid alongside Alstom UK and National Grid for funding from the European Union.

A spokeswoman for Drax said Yorkshire and Humber was best placed in the UK and possibly Europe for CCS demonstrations, with its access to the North Sea, so a regional approach would make sense.