The receiving dock at the Northern Lights carbon capture and storage project at Blomoyna, Norway, on Jan. 19.
Photographer: Andrea Gjestvang/Bloomberg
The $2.6 Billion Experiment to Cover Up Europe’s Dirty Habit
A Norwegian project to bury carbon waste under the sea is getting backing from Germany.
A dozen glistening storage tanks on a windswept island in the North Sea are one of the few visible signs of a costly experiment aimed at making a tiny fraction of Europe’s industrial pollution disappear.
Part of a $2.6 billion network, the facility on Norway’s Blomoyna is set to pump climate-warming carbon dioxide from manufacturing sites in the Netherlands and elsewhere into an untouched saline aquifer deep below the seabed. The first injections could start as early as next year and pave the way for a new international trade in industrial emissions.