Articles related to "Carbon capture and storage"

A decision by ArcelorMittal to pull out from the Ulcos "green" steelmaking project in France has effectively put an end to Europe's ambitions of becoming a global leader in carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) technology, according to a key lawmaker in the European Parliament. 

Experimental technology to capture, store and bury carbon emissions in geological formations is in line to receive a payout of as much as €1.37 billion from the EU’s energy infrastructure package, EurActiv has learned. 

The EU and Canada should work together to bring controversial carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology onto the global marketplace more quickly, according to the director of Canada’s flagship CAN$2 billion (€1.4bn) CCS programme.

The European Commission adopted a proposal on Wednesday (3 November) to give four billion euros of funding to cutting-edge climate technologies such as renewable energies and carbon capture and storage (CCS).

The European Parliament passed a draft regulation on 25 February allowing the European Commission to obtain more information about major energy projects planned in EU member states. The move was hailed as a step towards a more coordinated EU energy policy.

Fossil fuel producers are dodging the global downturn as production of oil, coal and natural gas reached record levels last year, the Worldwatch Institute said yesterday (15 October).

The European Commission last week proposed six carbon capture and storage (CCS) projects that are to receive a total of €1.05 billion to help commercialise the low-carbon technology.

The European Commission will today (24 June) present plans to spend €60 million of EU money on a carbon capture and storage project in China and other emerging economies, asking member states to chip in too.

Norway and the EU are stepping up cooperation to commercialise carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology, by handing out at least €140 million to European CCS projects and exploring the possibility of storing CO2 in the North Sea.

Two leading Polish industrial companies are applying to receive EU funds for a project to build the world's first combined zero-emission power and chemical plant, to provide a sustainable solution to the country's heavy dependence on coal.

Introducing binding emission limits for all power stations is key to shifting investment decisions in the power sector to "avoid dangerous lock-in to high-carbon power infrastructure," argues a new report commissioned by environmental groups WWF, Bellona Europa, ClientEarth, E3G and the Green Alliance.

Early identification of industries exposed to foreign competition and temporary exemptions from full CO2 permit auctioning for coal-dependent economies are part of a French EU Presidency compromise proposal designed to overcome opposition to EU climate plans from some of the bloc's heavy industries and newer member states.

Calls for CO2 capture and storage technology to be developed, mandated by a future emissions performance standard for power plants, are growing louder. But most EU countries have not yet signalled their support.

MEPs have voted in support of a multi-billion euro fund to drive the construction of CO2 capture and storage demonstration plants. Coal-dependent China is said to be waiting for Europe to move on the issue, but EU governments are yet to formally back the financing plan.

The European Parliament is getting closer to secure funding for emerging technology to capture and store the carbon dioxide emissions of heavy-polluting coal-fired power plants, in an agreement that could bolster the EU's leadership in the fight against global warming.

EU environment ministers will today (3 July) be urged to accelerate the development of carbon capture and storage (CCS) demonstration plants during a two-day informal Council meeting of EU energy and environment ministers, the first of its kind under the French EU Presidency.

With hundreds of new coal-fired power plants planned within and outside Europe in the coming decades, pressure is growing on the EU to commercialise and export carbon capture and storage (CCS) technologies to prevent a massive rise in global CO2 emissions. But difficult financing issues remain unresolved.  

UK Liberal MEP Chris Davies wants all existing fossil fuel power plants to be retrofitted with CO2 capture and storage technology by 2025, and is calling for a moratorium on new plant constructions after 2015 unless the facilities are able to prevent 90% of their CO2 emissions from entering the atmosphere.

Shell is pushing for the use of EU taxpayers' money to finance expensive carbon capture and storage technologies as part of efforts to avoid run-away CO2 emissions linked to sky-rocketing global energy demand. Jeremy Bentham, Shell Vice President, and Chief Economist Steven Fries spoke to EurActiv following the presentation of the company's 2008 Energy Scenarios.

Improved clarity regarding state aid rules and inclusion into the EU's carbon-trading scheme were among the features of new proposals on carbon capture and storage (CCS) put forward by the Commission in its climate and energy package last week. But doubts remain as to the effectiveness of the expensive technology in reducing the bloc's CO2 emissions. 

Industrial greenhouse gases prevented from entering the atmosphere through the use of so-called carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology are to be credited as not emitted under the EU emissions trading scheme, according to Commission plans to be put forward next year.

Over two-thirds of respondents to the Commission's public consultation on an EU Strategic Energy Technology Plan are sceptical about the likely contribution of so-called clean fossil fuels, notably carbon storage, to the fight against climate change.

The Commission is launching an online public consultation on potential risks, particularly environmental, from new technology allowing CO2 emissions from power plants to be stored underground.

The capture and storage of CO2 deep underground may prove an environmentally risky solution to global warming, a US government experiment revealed.