THE SNP has demanded the Treasury’s total £5.1 billion oil and gas receipts for the next year be ploughed into the Acorn carbon capture project.The call came after a commitment at last year’s spending review pledged £200 million in grant funding for the Aberdeenshire project only for it to be scaled back at last week’s budget to the £12m already awarded and the remaining cash to come from government loans and equity stakes.

THE SNP has demanded the Treasury’s total £5.1 billion oil and gas receipts for the next year be ploughed into the Acorn carbon capture project.

The call came after a commitment at last year’s spending review pledged £200 million in grant funding for the Aberdeenshire project only for it to be scaled back at last week’s budget to the £12m already awarded and the remaining cash to come from government loans and equity stakes.

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