 The First Minister, alex Salmond, said with some force last Thursday that the collapse of the ?1 billion Longannet carbon capture and storage project would be bad news for Scotland, the UK, and the rest of Europe. He was speaking at an event to welcome a ?4.5 billion investment by BP west of Shetland, in a project designed to produce a great deal more oil for our eager use. Is Mr Salmond interested in taking carbon out of the ground or in putting it back? He is rightly interested in both and in this breadth of vision he has company within the oil industry. Shell is a leading player in the Longannet venture, prospectively storing carbon dioxide captured at the coal-fired power station in Fife, safely under the North Sea. Why would Shell even think about providing this waste disposal service? T 