StatoilHydro, the gas and oil giant, has found itself in trouble with the Norwegian Pollution Control Authority over excessive CO2 emissions from its Molkoya gas plant along the coast of the Barents Sea. The Authority has ordered StatoilHydro to take care of this violation or face consequences.
The oil and gas company has been dealing with major technical problems at their Molkoya plant which has created a massive increase in CO2 emissions, according to Skunews. During the last six months of production, the plant has emitted 1.6 million tons of greenhouse gases amounting to more than two per cent of Norway’s total emissions.
Now the Norwegian Pollution Control Authority wants the oil and gas company to reduce the emissions and present an assessment report by early August. To help fix the problem, StatoilHydro will increase its staff at the Molkoya plant and look into innovative CO2 capture and storage.
Since the Molkoya plant opened in August 2007 it has been forced to close several times due to technical problems and upgrades. The highly excessive CO2 emissions this year are a particularly sensitive issue right now as Norway’s officials are under heavy pressure to cut the nation’s emissions. The present government wants to reduce its annual emissions by 30 per cent before 2020 to the past levels in 1990.
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Thank you for sharing this article. There is nothing wrong with doing it for reasons of health and efficiency but not some arbitrary figure that is not based on solid science.
CO2 emissions are already out of control.
Great information. But, frankly I am getting tired of the doom sayers. Now I know which direction to go. Many greetings!
Planet Poluto & cycle 24
If you argue that there haven´t been solid research or science on this, then you can´t use this as an arguement to prove that human activity have no effect on the climate. Today is it widely accepted that human activity have an effect on the climate.
There is nothing wrong with doing it for reasons of health and efficiency but not some arbitrary figure that is not based on solid science.
The climate is changing but that humans are having the effect of it is frankly, as plausible as some things we read about in Bible or other religious book.
Fisy – what is the problem with minimizing pollution?
> The present government wants to reduce its annual emissions by 30 per cent before 2020 to the past levels in 1990.
More climate cult madness!
Margaret Thatcher has lot to answer for.