March 10, 2023 - l'Européenne de Bruxelles

Denmark manifests in CO2 storage, Belgium becomes first customer

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Denmark will be the first country in the world to store CO2 emissions from across the border in empty gas fields under the North Sea. Belgium is the first customer. CO2 capture and storage (CCS) has been around for a while (some projects have even been around for decades), but the technology has never been used to store CO2 emissions from other countries. Now I am. A Belgian industrial player is going to capture part of his emissions. This is then transported via ships to project Greensand of, among others,…

‘Nitrogen crisis’ divides Belgian government as farmers take the streets

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In Belgium, politics is divided by the nitrogen crisis. For us, the tough dossier plays a major role during the campaign for the provincial state elections, next Wednesday. A political crisis is looming. With our southern neighbors, the time has already come: nitrogen is a fissile fungus in the Flemish government. Tomorrow a knot must finally be tied, otherwise a government crisis threatens. If there is no nitrogen agreement in Flanders, the same thing threatens as in the Netherlands: a permit stop for, among other things, the construction of new…