Here’s some carbon news from Clean Energy Wire:
“The German government cabinet has approved a draft law that would allow the underground storage of CO2 and enable its large-scale transport through pipelines, and thus pave the way for the application of carbon capture and storage or utilisation (CCS, CCU) across the country.
‘This is an important milestone on the road to decarbonising industry, paving the way for the use of technologies that were previously not possible in Germany,’ said economy minister Katherina Reiche at a press conference in Berlin. She added it was a ‘deliberate’ choice to define the scope of CCS and CCU broadly. The draft law rules out the use of carbon capture for coal-fired power plants, but exempts no other application, including gas-fired power plants — which NGOs and Green Party lawmakers have criticised in the past.”
The law must still be adopted as final and effective so it may undergo political sausage-making – it is possible the exclusion for coal-fired plants and inclusion of gas-fired plants could change.
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