EU ROUND UP – DIMAS LEAKS EU CARBON CAPTURE LAW PLANS
September 1st, 2006
BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN Union (EU) environment Commissioner Stavros Dimas has unveiled European Commission plans to next year launch comprehensive legislation boosting effective carbon capture and storage.
The laws would remove legal barriers impeding research and development into this environmental technology and would also lay down rules on liability, for instance, if stored CO2 leached into the environment. Mr Dimas said rules should provide "provide clarity, coherence and stability".
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