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Publish date: August 4, 2009
Written by: Martina Novak
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It has not yet been given permission of injecting CO2 underground due to concerns among local officials about the lack of a legal framework for CO2 storage.
Lack of knowledge and understanding of CCS in the general public remains a big challenge when it comes to the development and deployment of CCS. Stuart Haszeldine, a CCS expert at the University of Edinburgh, warns of possible negative repercussions from opposition towards one CCS project onto another.
“The example of Schwarze Pumpe shows why utilities need to take public consultation very seriously at the earliest stage of developing CCS projects. We at Bellona are now working on a set of guidelines for how this should be done,” says Dulce Boavida of Bellona Europa.
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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.
After years of inaction, Germany is working on its Carbon Management Strategy to resolve how CCS can play a role in climate action in industry. At the end of February, the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action published first key points and a proposal to amend the law Kohlenstoffdioxid Speicherungsgesetz (KSpG). Bellona Deutschland, who was actively involved in the previous stakeholder dialogue submitted a statement in the association hearing.
In the midst of a global discussion on whether natural gas should be used as a transitional fuel and whether emissions from its extraction, production, transport and use are significantly less than those from other fossil fuels, Russia has developed ambitious plans to increase its own production of liquified natural gas (LNG) in the Arctic – a region with 75% of proven gas reserves in Russia – to raise its share in the international gas trade.