Norway’s Equinor Admits It “Over-Reported” Amount of Carbon Captured At Flagship Project for Years
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This story is the fifth part of a DeSmog series on carbon capture and was developed with the support of Journalismfund Europe. Norwegian oil and gas company Equinor has admitted over-reporting the performance of a flagship carbon capture and storage project by about 30 percent due to defective monitoring equipment, underscoring risks associated with plans to scale the […]
  • vegskret@lemmy.world
    7·
    20 days ago

    Seeing that this is a 67% government owned company (according to Wikipedia), that’s not a good look. And seeing that government is stating that it wants to be a leader in sustainability, while also admitting that it is not even close (actually about halfway) to reaching its own carbon emissions goals for 2030, also not a good look. Source in Norwegian

  • RvTV95XBeo@sh.itjust.works
    6·
    20 days ago

    I don’t know folks… It kinda seems like carbon capture might be a scam propped up by polluters who just want to get away with a few more years of destroying the environment to maintain business as usual.