Is carbon seize and storage a fossil gas trade fig leaf or very important for web zero plans?

Jul 31, 2023 at 12:25 PM
Is carbon seize and storage a fossil gas trade fig leaf or very important for web zero plans?

Depending on who you discuss to, carbon seize and storage (CCS) is both a fig leaf for the oil and fuel trade or a significant a part of the shift to web zero.

The PM has introduced hundreds of thousands of kilos for the Acorn carbon capture project at present – a three way partnership between Shell and different companies.

The prime minister additionally confirmed a whole lot of latest licences for North Sea oil and fuel exploration – placing down a marker in opposition to Labour plans to stop new drilling.

In essence, carbon seize expertise is about eradicating carbon dioxide from industrial processes and smoke stacks, and pumping it into depleted oil and fuel fields a mile or so beneath the seabed.

It can be locked up in rocks somewhat than including to international warming within the ambiance.

CCS hasn’t been carried out at scale earlier than and it is going to be costly at first.

But Norway and another nations are additionally racing to start out up schemes to fulfill their local weather obligations.

The supporters of the expertise say it might make industries that may’t be decarbonised, akin to cement manufacturing, much more sustainable.

It might additionally take away most of the greenhouse fuel emissions that end result from turning pure fuel into cleaner hydrogen.

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But inexperienced teams warn that might maintain the manufacturing of fossil fuels into the long run.

They need oil and fuel left within the floor as quickly as potential – and say CCS is a distraction from lowering carbon throughout the economic system.

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