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SHOULDER TO SHOULDER: In March, Oslo City Councilor Raymond Johansen dated NHO chief Ole Erik Almlid and demanded two CO2 capture facilities. But the government will only fully fund one, they announced Monday. Photo: Frode Hansen
Politicians in Oslo have promised voters to cut 95 percent of greenhouse gas emissions in 10 years. That plan expires now, when the government will not fully pay for treatment at the Oslo waste incineration plant, according to city councilor Raymond Johansen (Labor).
Johansen is now asking for the Progress Party’s support to secure a majority in the Storting for the full funding of two CO2 capture projects, and not just one, which is part of the government’s new “Longship” initiative.
– For Oslo, this means that we did not reach the climate goal that the city council has adopted, says the city council leader to VG, clearly disappointed with the “second place” in the government’s plan for carbon capture and storage, CCS.
Must raise 3.8 billion himself
In the Solberg government’s plan, the giant sum is NOK 25 billion for this gigantic climate roof that will capture CO2 from the industry and then transport and store it in a giant reservoir under the seabed in the North Sea.
Norcem in Brevik will have its capture facility fully funded, the government proposes.
But the other facility that made it to the final, the Fortum Oslo Varme waste management facility at Klemetsrud in Oslo, must raise NOK 3.8 billion in its own funding, as a condition of receiving NOK 3 billion in support from the state.
– The government says that to get support, we must first get money from the EU innovation fund. I think it is unlikely. This makes it more difficult for us to do this installation at Klemetsrud, says Raymond Johansen.
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It has no oil funds
– Can Oslo itself contribute this money?
– We are sure to contribute some funding. But that sum is high. After all, Oslo does not have an oil fund, responds the leader of the city council.
He now hopes that a majority in the Storting can override the government’s plan to support just one facility:
– Over time, I have had good contact with the former FRP ministers in the Ministry of Oil and Energy, and gained a great understanding from them about the importance of CCS in Klemetsrud. I want to encourage FRP to support the other opposition parties that will support two plants, so that we also start in Oslo, says Johansen.
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It argues that there are around 450 waste incineration plants in Europe and that therefore waste incineration constitutes a huge source of CO2 emissions.
– It is also used against our project that it is not located next to the dock and therefore easily accessible for the transport of CO2 on ships. But the vast majority of garbage incinerators are not located by the sea, says the city council leader.
Frp: measured
However, the FRP has been compared to the government’s plan.
– FRP’s parliamentary group will now thoroughly analyze the decision basis to ensure that we do not waste taxpayers’ money, Jon Georg Dale, FRP’s energy policy spokesman, told NTB on Monday afternoon.
