supporters claim the project could create up to 21,000 jobs. but campaigners say it is prolonging a climate wrecking industry. katie hunter reports. our economy is still dependent on burning fossilfuels. that emits carbon dioxide and drives climate change. the idea of the acorn project at st fergus in aberdeenshire is to take c02 from plants in scotland and store it under the north sea in empty gas and oil reservoirs. grangemouth refinery and mossmorran are understood to have signed up. government advisers say this technology is vital to meet climate targets. right now, as we talk, the uk is not doing carbon capture at any great skill, so we expect this to be a much bigger industry in the future because we have this storage capacity in the north sea. if we don t develop it, getting to net zero here in the uk is going to be much, much harder. and of course globally we need to demonstrate that it can be done at scale. but some environmental groups say the money would be better