AACCS – High Peak

Welcome to High Peak

Action Against CCS is a committee run, democratic, formalised local campaign action group that opposes CCS (Carbon Capture and Storage) in all of its forms, and in particular the construction of potentially lethal CO₂ pipeline corridors and industrial AGI units that will put at risk and spoil our local areas, all around the UK.

AACCS are in partnership with a number of local groups who equally oppose the CCS projects that are going to heavily impact and affect their local areas. One such area is the High Peak area, where the proposed Peak Cluster pipeline will start from, running a completely unnecessary 200km to the sea off the Wirral coastline.

News & Articles

  • BBC Asks What is Peak Cluster?

    This BBC News report looks at the proposed Peak Cluster carbon capture project and explains how the scheme would work, including plans to transport captured CO₂ from cement and lime plants across…

    Read more: BBC Asks What is Peak Cluster?

  • Will a pipeline destroy Britain’s first national park?

    A major new feature by Dispatch explores growing opposition to the proposed Peak Cluster carbon capture pipeline, which would run from industrial sites in Derbyshire through parts of the Peak District National…

    Read more: Will a pipeline destroy Britain’s first national park?

Events

Stop Peak Cluster.

A 200 km pipeline, carrying CO₂ emissions, is proposed to run through Wirral to a new purpose-built AGI (above ground installation – a huge industrial complex) in Meols, before being transported offshore via pipeline.

The pipeline will run from industrial sites in Derbyshire and Staffordshire, through Cheshire and Wirral, and aims to transport 3 million tonnes of CO₂ emissions annually from cement and lime plants, with operations starting around 2032.

The Impact on our Lives

A multi-billion-pound project – heavily funded by taxpayers 

200km pipeline corridor 30–40m wide construction corridor causing widespread disruption 

Large-scale AGI (Above Ground Installation) heavily industrial sites 

AGIs spanning Chapel-en-le-Frith, Macclesfield, Holmes Chapel and Ellesmere Port 

AGIs might be 100m x 100m or more – multiple football pitches in size 

Block Valve Stations at regular intervals – up to 50m x 50m 

CO₂ transported and stored beneath the seabed – long term impacts uncertain.

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