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Support urged for North Sea carbon storage plan
The North Sea basin task force, a high-level British-Norwegian working group set up in 2005 to develop a joint approach to carbon capture and storage (CCS), has called for 'financial and other incentives' to encourage the deployment of CCS in the region.
'CCS may initially need to be supported by state aid up to 100 percent, breaching EU rules,' UK energy minister Peter Truscott said on a visit to Norway last week, according to Reuters news agency. Ways around the regulations were being discussed, he said. 'The fact is that if we don't give considerable support this will not happen and the EU knows that.'
In its first progress report, published last week, the working group also recommends a licensing and regulatory regime and raises the possibility of a wider membership to include other North Sea states with an interest in CCS.
Meanwhile EU energy commissioner Andris Piebalgs last week attended the launch of the first pilot onshore CCS facility in the EU, a test project in Ketzin, Germany.
* Aftenposten newspaper reports that most major Norwegian corporations have ignored government recommendations that they buy carbon offset quotas for business travel, on the grounds that they already have enough environmental measures in place.
Courtesy of ENDS Europe Daily
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