Overview
- Peak Cluster’s in-person sessions in New Brighton drew more than 300 protesters on Monday, in a rally led by Defend Wirral’s Green Spaces.
- The plan would lay a roughly 120-mile pressurised CO2 pipeline to carry emissions from four cement and lime plants to storage in the depleted Morecambe gas fields.
- The £59.6 million development includes £28.6 million from central government, with an application due this year, a consent decision targeted for 2029, and operations slated for 2032.
- Peak Cluster chair David Parkin says the Wirral route is the likeliest to secure permission and that they do not plan to reroute or cancel, while insisting incident risks are very low.
- Campaigners call the consultation a tick-box exercise and warn about local harms near homes, citing a proposed Above Ground Installation at Meols with a 50-metre chimney and flood-zone risks.