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Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS): Norway’s most important climate measure or another Mongstad disaster?

Longship, Norway's flagship investment in carbon capture and storage (CCS), will be formally launched on 17th and 18th June 2025. Langskip and Northern Lights are described by the government as Norway's most important climate measures, but the truth is rather different.

Karbonfangst og -lagring (CCS): Norges viktigste klimatiltak eller ny Mongstad-fiasko?

Langskip, Norges storsatsing på karbonfangst og -lagring (CCS), markeres 17. og 18. juni 2025. Langskip og Northern Lights (transportløsningen for CCS) omtales av regjeringen som Norges viktigste klimatiltak, men sannheten er noe annet.

If UK Labour scrapped billions for false solutions like CCS and hydrogen, it could fund pensioners’ winter fuel allowance 

In the UK, despite hundreds of millions being spent and no commercial projects in operation, a further £25 billion has been promised in new subsidies for Carbon, Capture and Storage (CCS) and Hydrogen. This is greater than the supposed £22 billion black hole that the previous Conservative Government left the new Labour government. If Labour is looking for a quick fix to find money to fund the winter fuel allowance, they should scrap these wasteful handouts to the fossil fuel industry.

Refinery in Norway at night showing a flare

Carbon capture has a 50-year record of failure. Why are governments throwing billions of dollars at it?

The current wave of carbon capture projects and government subsidies will only further entrench the fossil fuel industry and its impacts.

Just weeks after COP28, ADNOC’s oil and gas expansion plans “gain momentum”

Just weeks after the COP28 climate talks finished, it is business as usual for the host country, the United Arab Emirates, in expanding its oil and gas production.

COP28: Don’t believe ADNOC’s spin over its new climate commitments

At the beginning of 2000s, as concerns about climate change grew, some of the biggest oil companies began to modify their climate change public relations strategies.

“Wrong side of history”: Universal condemnation of UK Gov’s North Sea expansion and CCS plans

For weeks now, climate scientists and activists have looked increasingly aghast at the unrelenting heat and floods ravaging our baking earth. The pace and scale of the daily climate disasters have alarmed them. And our daily climate breakdown shows no sign of stopping.

G7 meeting: 50 actions around the world call on world leaders to stop peddling fossil fuels and false solutions

Hundreds of civil society organisations from dozens of countries have taken to the streets around the world to demand that the G7 stop peddling fossil fuels to developing countries and stop promoting false solutions to the climate crisis.

COP28 President pushes false fossil fuel solutions, such as CCS, at CERAWeek

For anyone in the oil and gas industry, there is only one place to be this week. The great and good of the industry has converged on Houston for CERAWeek, which bills itself as the world’s premier energy event.