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FEED contract and funding awarded to the Peterhead CCS Project
The British Secretary of State signed an agreement with Shell UK Ltd this week to move forward with the Front End Engineering and Design (FEED) work on the Peterhead CCS Project in the UK.
Europe must integrate CCS in 2030 framework
Scottish Carbon Capture & Storage (SCCS) released a policy briefing this week where they advise that the European Union must identify and propose quantifiable milestones for CCS as part of the new 2030 climate and energy framework.
North America and China lead the way on CCS technology
North America and China is leading the development of CCS technology according to a report that was released in Brussels today.
Boundary Dam – Just Do It!
SaskPower visited Oslo this week to share their experiences from building the CCS project Boundary Dam, which was built faster and is less expensive than the Norwegian Mongstad project.
Lack of CCS initiatives in the EU’s 2030 framework
The EU Commission’s communication on the policy framework for climate and energy from 2020 to 2030 was released on January 22, and showed a surprising lack of CCS initiatives after positive signs from the European Parliament the week before.
Former Norwegian Prime Minister in Mongstad Hearing
The CCS project at Mongstad was cancelled in September 2013, shortly after the Auditor General released a report that questioned the lack of financial control in the project. Former Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg will have to meet in a hearing on January 20 to shed a light on what went wrong.
EU resolution on the development of CCS
On January 14, 2014 the European Parliament took an important step towards developing more CCS in Europe.
The Future of CCS in the EU
With COP19 behind us and with a realization that we are no closer to a climate solution that we were before the meetings in Poland, it is time to take a look at what is going on with CCS in the EU.
Putting it back – How to deploy large-scale CCS
ZERO recently released a report about policy instruments for large-scale CCS, which offers a thorough analysis of the policy-making instruments and suggestions on how to best implement CCS in Europe.
A case study looking at the potential for long-term CO2 storage beneath the North Sea
In this fourth article about carbon storage, we are looking at the potential for long time CO2 storage beneath the North Sea. The previous three articles have made the argument that the technology exists, is safe and has support around the globe, and in this article we aim to show where it can be done.
Poland and CCS - a backdrop for COP19
While the rest of the world is looking at Poland and COP19 for a climate solution, Poland is lagging behind on cleaning up its emissions.
New report from ZERO: Policy instruments for large-scale CCS
CCS has been met with some major setbacks lately, but it is not because of the lack of available technology. We know how to do it, but the problem seems to be on the policy-making side of CCS. ZERO published a report about policy instruments for large-scale CCS on the second day of ZERO13 in Oslo, which offers a thorough analysis of the policy-making instruments and suggestions on how to best implement CCS in Europe.
CCS – Challenges and Possibilities at ZERO13
Europe and the EU have not yet succeeded in building any CCS projects, despite ambitious plans and efforts for over a decade, both from authorities and the industry itself. There has been a lack of effective, long-term instruments and framework for this climate technology. Now the EU has initiated a new process, inviting inputs on the needed next steps to ensure building of CCS. ZERO has responded to this initiative, and will present our recommendations for financing CCS at ZERO13.
Dr. Myles Allen to ZERO13
Dr. Myles Allen, head of the Climate Dynamics group in the University of Oxford’s Physics Department, will be one of the key speakers at ZERO13 in November. His message is simple: Everyone who wants to extract or import fossil fuels should have to capture and store an increasing amount of the CO2 they emit during energy production.
Global NGO views on CCS and storage of CO2
CCS is considered by many to be one of the important solutions towards lowering emissions and slowing down global warming, but not everyone agrees. We talked to NGOs around the world to let them explain their standpoint on CCS and the public opinion in their part of the world.
CCS is real and it works
Kurt Waltzer, Managing Director of Clean Air Task Force, Camilla Svendsen Skriung, Political Adviser for ZERO, and Ida Sofia Vaa, Web Journalist for ZERO, explain why CCS works and is here to stay in this blog post written for the ENGO network on CCS.
ZERO denounces cancellation of full-scale CCS at Mongstad
The Norwegian Auditor General released a report last week where he criticized the Norwegian Government for lack of cost control, legal framework and poor project management. The Government decided to cancel the full-scale CCS project three days later.
ZERO supports Auditor General's report on Mongstad
The Norwegian Office of the Auditor General published a report on the Norwegian State's involvement in the CCS project at Kårstø and Mongstad this week, where they comment on the cost increases that have occurred.
Myths and facts about CO2 storage
There are a series of myths surrounding storage of CO2, and it is time to do some myth-busting and debunk some of the most long-lived myths surrounding this. One of the biggest fears concerning storage of CO2 is that this is a new technology and that there are no data gathered from long-term storage.
Alstom-EDF started testing in Le Havre
Alstom-EDF's CCS project in Le Havre, France, has captured its first tonne of CO2.
