Bellona nuclear digest. March 2024
A survey of events in the field of nuclear and radiation safety relating to Russia and Ukraine.
News
UK funding new CCS projects
Publish date: April 23, 2009
Shortcuts on this page
News
UK funding new CCS projects
BRUSSELS – British chancellor Alistair Darling announced several environmental commitments as he presented the UK's 2009 fiscal budget to parliament on Wednesday April 22nd. The government will allocate a further £1.4bn (€1.6bn) in low-carbon initiatives over the next three years. The initiative covers a new funding mechanism to support up to four carbon capture and storage (CCS) demonstration projects, and £90 million to fund detailed preparatory studies.
The Chancellor of the Exchequer’s announcement of the UK’s demonstration plans says that “the deployment of CCS will be key to the move to a low carbon energy supply (…) the increasing urgency of the climate change challenge and lessons learned from the competition to date mean that the Government now considers a new and more ambitious policy on CCS is appropriate”.
Chairman of Bellona Europa, Paal Frisvold says that “the symbolic effect of national initiatives in the funding of CCS is crucial for further deployment of CCS in Europe”.
More News
All news
Russia plans to restart Ukraine’s war-torn Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant
Russian president Vladimir Putin has told the United Nations atomic energy watchdog that Russia plans to restart Ukraine’s embattled Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant, currently occupied by Russian troops and technicians, fueling worries about a serious nuclear accident on the front lines of a grinding military conflict.
Press Release – New Regulation on Construction Products adopted: first EU-level rules for green public procurement of building materials
Wednesday, April 10, 2024 | Brussels, Belgium – Today, the European Parliament approved the newly revised Construction Products regulation (CPR)...
Reactor building at Ukrainian nuclear plant hit during recent attacks
Recent attacks on Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant "mark the beginning of a new and gravely dangerous front of the war," the UN atomic agency's director general said last week.