Blog Action Day 2009: Carbon Capture and Storage
This week I have been following the climate change debates in both London and The Hague. With the Copenhagen meeting coming ever closer the discussions are beginning to focus on the “how” of combating climate change refreshing practical ideas against the doom and gloom projections of runaway climate change - the emphasis being on projects that can really help reduce CO2 emissions: energy efficiency programmes that provide local jobs, large-scale renewables in the North Sea linked by a super grid to provide energy security ; and carbon capture and storage (CCS) projects that link up the most polluting emitters and allow them a cost effective way of permanently storing CO2. These projects are perceived in the Netherlands as giving the Dutch economy a way out the economic downturn and providing much needed jobs.
There is a lot of expertise to share between the UK and the Netherlands with both having won EU funding for a CCS demonstration project in Hatfield in Yorkshire and in Maasvlakte near Rotterdam last week. This was illustrated when David Milliband and Carl Bildt went to Rotterdam to see the E.ON/TNO CCS pilot project at Maasvlakte.
Action now is more important than ever. And Dutch activists, for example our friends at places like the Rotterdam Climate Inititiative and TNO, are helping us grapple with the modern engineering challenges of Carbon Capture and Storage. This builds on their centuries old expertise in managing water and the impacts that rising sea levels have had on The Netherlands.
Posted at 15:42 15 October 2009 by Paul Arkwright | Comments[0]
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