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Publish date: January 14, 2010
Written by: Veronica Webster
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The 4450 megawatts (MW) Belchatow power station is the biggest emitter of CO2 in the EU and covers 15 percent of the total electricity supply in Poland. About 260MW of the new 858 MW bloc will be equipped with CCS and will begin to operate before the end of 2015.
It is expected that the project will store over 2.1 million tonnes of CO2 per year.
This is a significant amount, but still small in relation to the plant’s total 2008 emissions of 31 million tonnes.
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.
In this news digest, we monitor events that impact the environment in the Russian Arctic. Our main focus lies in identifying the factors that contribute to pollution risks and climate change.