Author: mark

The Steve Rotheram question The Radio Merseyside Hot Seat  I’m currently running the national petition opposing the proposed CCS pipeline connected to the Peak Cluster project. So when my wife said, “Steve Rotheram’s in the Hot Seat on BBC Radio Merseyside,” I thought — finally. Here is someone elected to represent the people of this region. Someone…

I recently wrote to my local MP, Angela Eagle, in jun 2025 about the Liverpool Bay Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) project. It wasn’t a casual email. It set out specific, technical concerns about injecting vast quantities of industrial CO₂ — including known toxic impurities — beneath one of the most environmentally sensitive marine areas in…

Why CO₂ Pipes Deserve Extra Concern Pipelines are usually sold to the public as boring, sensible bits of infrastructure. Steel tubes. Valves. Clipboards. Nothing to worry about.  CO₂ pipelines, however, are not quite that sort of pipe. At first glance, the pitch sounds reassuring: “It’s just like other gases under pressure. We already move high…

Yesterday afternoon (24/01/26), I attended Peak Cluster’s public Hoylake “consultation” — a word doing heroic levels of heavy lifting. What we actually got was a thinly stretched set of PowerPoint slides on a series of stands, vague answers, and the familiar sense that the real decisions will be made somewhere else, by people who don’t…

A Technical Risk Review of Long-Term CO₂ Storage Under the Irish Sea This article differs from my usual writing style.It is a structured technical review of the proposed CO₂ storage beneath Liverpool Bay, part of the HyNet North West project.This is not an argument against climate action.It is an argument for transparency, proper modelling, and…

I’m back on the CCS soapbox because Wirral Reform Doge (yes, the meme lives) is still fighting ENI’s plan to turn Liverpool Bay into a carbon landfill. I promise not to dine out on this forever, but nothing exposes the comic flaws of our political plumbing quite like an active campaign. Think of this post…

he UK Govs £2 billion- science experiment, what could possibly go wrong ALL though this is written with some humour, this is not a joke, please take a few minutes to read as this is really important. Everyone in the North West of the UK should be concerned and take action  🧪 Liverpool Bay: Britain’s…