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Planet Ark : Shell Chief Seeks Carbon Capture Subsidies Subscribe to daily environment news National Tree Day Planet Ark Home Select a topic from this pull-down menu ------------------------------- Read the latest Reuters World Environment News Look at the latest Reuters Environment News Pictures Receive free daily news headlines via email Search the Planet Ark News Archive Find out about National Tree Day Visit the Planet Ark Media Centre Who are Planet Ark? Find out about Planet Ark's campaigns Find out about the local recycling services available in your area Shell Chief Seeks Carbon Capture Subsidies Mail this story to a friend | Printer friendly version BELGIUM: April 8, 2008 BRUSSELS - The European Union must create rapid incentives to promote underground storage of carbon dioxide (CO2) to achieve its ambitious climate change goals, the head of oil major Royal Dutch Shell said on Monday. "Because CO2 capture and storage adds costs and yields no revenues, government action is needed to support and stimulate investment quickly on a scale large enough to affect global emissions," Shell CEO Jeroen van der Veer said in a speech prepared for delivery in Brussels. The quickest way to give utilities an incentive to invest in developing the technology would be to give them credits in the EU's Emissions Trading System for CO2 they capture and store, he said, according to extracts released by Shell. The European Commission has proposed legislation to encourage carbon capture and storage (CCS), notably by helping fund the construction of a dozen demonstration plants. But van der Veer said that could come too late to achieve the EU's goal of cutting CO2 emissions by at least 20 percent by 2020 from 1990 levels. "At the very least, companies should earn carbon credits for the CO2 they capture and store," he said. Carbon capture and storage, designed to reduce CO2 emissions from large industrial sites such as power plants, has yet to be proven to work on an industrial scale. The Commission's draft legislation will provide a legal and regulatory framework to make geological storage of CO2 possible. "Yet in the absence of an accompanying transitional EU funding mechanism to incentivise private sector investment, large-scale CCS projects in Europe are likely to be delayed," van der Veer said. Some EU lawmakers argue that energy companies should be reinvesting part of the windfall profits they have made from higher energy prices and from receiving CO2 permits free under the current ETS system to fund investment in carbon storage. (reporting by Paul Taylor, editing by Margaret Orgill) Story by Paul Taylor REUTERS NEWS SERVICE ENVIRONMENTAL NEWS SEARCH Enter your keywords to search our news archive by subject. 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