Netherlands stops Shell's CO2 storage project
Netherlands stops Shell's CO2 storage project
Shell’s Barendrecht Carbon-Capture Project Canceled
Netherlands stops Shell's CO2 storage project
The Dutch government said Thursday it will not allow oil giant Shell to store millions of tonnes of arbon dioxide in a depleted gas reservoir under a small town, upholding the fears of townspeople.
The previous Dutch government last November provisionally authorised Anglo-Dutch Shell to undertake a project to store some of the 5.0 megatonnes of CO2 emitted each year by the company's refinery in Pernis, Europe's largest, about 15 kilometres (10 miles) from Barendrecht.
Shell’s Barendrecht Carbon-Capture Project Canceled
The injection of CO2 could have begun at the end of 2012 or at the beginning of 2013. The plan was to send emissions through a pipeline from a gasification hydrogen plant at Shell’s Pernis refinery near Rotterdam, about 20 kilometers away (12 miles).