EU LIBERALISES STATE AID LAWS AND BOOSTS CARBON CAPTURE SYSTEMS
January 1st, 2008
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has proposed a detailed set of mandatory guidelines for the rolling out of carbon capture and storage (CCS) systems, that it hopes will promote their use, cleansing solid fuels of greenhouse gas emission problems. This legislation has been under discussion for more than a year and ultimately, the Commission decided not to make CCS mandatory, but to promote it through the European Union's (EU) emissions trading system. Under its proposals, CO2 captured and safely stored under its tabled CCS technical guidelines would be ...
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