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The CCS pilot project at Sleipner in the middle of the North Sea (Photo: Alligator film /BUG / StatoilHydro)

Norway offers EU €140m for carbon capture

Norwegian Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg offered European Union countries some €140 million (1 bn kroner) to support the development of carbon capture and storage projects - an experimental and highly controversial technology that aims to scrub industrial processes of their CO2 emissions.

"The EU is a driving force in the development and implementation of CCS technologies," Mr Stoltenberg told reporters ahead of a major international conference on the subject in Bergen, Norway.

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The CCS pilot project at Sleipner in the middle of the North Sea (Photo: Alligator film /BUG / StatoilHydro)

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