Conservative Party leader/the new Prime Minister of Norway Erna Solberg said that it was high time that the government stopped the plans for full-scale CO2 capture at Mongstad.
– A long time ago Conservative Party questioned whether we were actually able to realize this project within financial acceptable limits, she says to NRK.
Political Environment spokesman Nikolai Astrup Right believes climate agreement in 2012 to build full-scale plants by 2020 is still applicable.
He does not understand why Petroleum and Energy Ola Borten Moe (Sp) believes Parliament should adopt the new construction of full-scale treatment plant by 2020.
– All parties in Parliament, with the exception of the Progressive Party, was climate agreement from June 2012 agreed to build a full-scale treatment plant by 2020. This decision is entirely independent of what is happening at Mongstad, says Astrup, who has long been critical of the cost of the Mongstad initiative.
He says the Conservatives are positive the technology center.
– The government’s decision comes at a strange time. We believe that a full-scale CO2 capture alternative can be built on Svalbard, or in the Grenland area in Telemark, Astrup said. (© NTB)
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