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| Amec shows how to cut CO2 emissions A study led by Yorkshire Forward for a group of stakeholders and undertaken by British engineer and project manager Amec shows how Britain can reduce its total CO2 emissions by over 6% by capturing and storing CO2 from sources in Yorkshire and Humber. This would represent the equivalent of taking 14 million cars off the road by 2030. The Yorkshire and Humber region produces around 90 million tonnes of industrial CO2 emissions a year. The study, developed by Yorkshire Forward, the Regional Development Agency, and a Steering Group of stakeholders, proposes an infrastructure network that would connect power plants to storage facilities in the depleted gas fields off the adjacent coastline in the South of the North Sea. The network would link the largest sources in the region and enable other emitters to transport and store their CO2. At today's price, the predicted cost of the infrastructure is £2 billion. Technical and economic issues in the development of transportation and storage infrastructure play a key element in determining investment decisions in CCS projects. CCS is one approach that is considered by the Stern Review, the Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change (IPCC) and the International Energy Agency as essential to provide a lower carbon future. write your comments about the article :: © 2008 Construction News :: home page |