FRP says no to carbon capture and storage proposal – NRK – Climate

Advertising, loose claims and insanity. It was the Oslo FRP ruling on the government’s plans for carbon capture and storage. They have asked the party’s parliamentary group to say a resounding no at the Storting.

The Storting group has now concluded.

– FrP parliamentary group has now taken a position on the project presented by the government, and today it has decided to say no to the project presented, Frp leader Siv Jensen tells NRK.

– Too expensive and too high risk

Jensen believes that a large part of the costs ends up with the taxpayers and that private companies take very little of the bill.

– When the state has to cover up to 80% of the costs, Norwegian taxpayers bear the significant risk in the project, says Jensen, who also reacts to the fact that it is private companies that become owners of the project and of the technology.

FRP also believes that the government has not implemented the necessary cost and risk assessment measures.

– An example of this is running two parallel projects for no reason. This increases the bill and risk for taxpayers, while at best the same technology can be developed twice, says Siv Jensen.

He also remembers the failed moon landing of the Labor Party at 10 billion crowns.

– This government proposal involves too high a price and too great a risk for taxpayers. Therefore, the parliamentary group of FrP has concluded today that it does not seem justified to us to support the proposal presented by the government, says Jensen.

Wild torpedoes “Norwegian industry’s biggest climate project”

– This is the largest climate project ever carried out in Norwegian industry, said Minister of Petroleum and Energy Tina Bru (H) when she presented the plans for the “Longship” Project on September 21 this year.

The plans provide full support for a carbon capture plant at Norcem in Brevik. It is also opened to give money to a project at Klemetsrud in Oslo. However, it requires that the project also receive other funds.

The announced price of NOK 25.1 billion made the Oslo FRP wish the plans the same fate as the longship in Halden; buried.

Already the day after Brus’s presentation, they adopted a resolution for the party’s parliamentary group to torpedo the proposal.

The resolution said, among other things:

“The project is being sold to the voters as a success. (…) These are ads and loose claims with no coverage. (…) This is said to be the industry of the future, but to produce an almost worthless product at extreme costs, and then digging it out of the ground at even higher costs, is not industry, but madness (…) »

– We urge the Storting group to vote against the “Longship” project. We think it is relatively unlikely to allocate 25 billion crowns to a project that has already proven difficult to succeed, county leader Geir Ugland Jacobsen in Oslo Frp told NRK at the time.

Government may depend on Frp’s carbon aid

The costs for both the capture facility and the storage solution are estimated at NOK 25.1 billion over 10 years. Of this, the state is scheduled to pay NOK 16.8 billion. This requires that the Oslo project also find external funding.

Oslo Frp fears that Norwegian taxpayers will have to pay the full bill of more than 25 billion crowns if the project goes through the Storting.

The projects have the potential to reduce up to 800,000 tons of CO₂ per year if carried out.

The problem for the government is that it may be the FRP that holds the key for the Storting to make the decision.