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National Grid hails North Sea carbon storage potential
2013-08-08 01:05:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BusinessGreen: The prospect of collecting emissions from an industrial hub and storing them deep below the North Sea has edged closer after initial test drilling off the Yorkshire coast was yesterday declared a success. National Grid said that its exploration project revealed an undersea site 65 kilometres (40 miles) offshore could hold around 200 million tonnes of CO2 - equivalent to taking 10 million cars off the roads for a decade. This type of storage site is common across Europe, potentially providing crucial...
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