From the outside, the Humber Refinery does not look like a part of Britain’s green future – and that’s putting it mildly.This is the very image of the country’s fossil fuel industry, a mammoth plant that churns out petrol, aviation fuel and other such products. It is a spaghetti junction of pipes – thousands of miles of shiny steel tubes snaking from canister to tank and back again.
Everywhere you look there are chimneys belching steam and fumes, others occasionally flaring with flames that light the winter sky.The air is thick with the acrid whiff of hydrocarbons, the ground black with carbon soot. It looks and smells like a vision of the very thing we’re trying to escape.But here’s the thing. This refinery – chimneys, flares, carbon emissions and all – is actually a crucial part of our escape route. If we are to eliminate carbon emissions in this country it will be…
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