China Starts Building First Emissions Capture, Storage Project

China, the world’s second-biggest energy user, started construction of its first carbon dioxide capture and storage project in Ordos in Inner Mongolia to reduce emissions.

The project will cost 210 million yuan ($30.9 million) and will be able to hold 100,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide a year, China National Petroleum Corp., the country’s biggest oil producer and the plant’s designer, said in a statement on its website today. The facility will start operations by the end of the year, it said.