Power plant’s Carbon Capture and Storage technology defended

Chris Davies, a lawmaker from the European Union has called for the continental body to compel power plants to trap all their carbon dioxide emissions by the year 2025 and inter them below the earth. He also criticised those who were against the Carbon Capture and Storage technology.

The Carbon Capture and Storage technology could ensure that more than thirty per cent of all the carbon emissions are kept out of the atmosphere. The technology is viewed as a potential silver bullet in the struggle against climate change as it could hold back growing emissions from coal-fired power stations.

The Carbon Capture and Storage technology has however never been tried on a big scale and environmental activists fiercely oppose it arguing that it is hazardous and could reroute funds away from renewable sources of power.

Chris Davies’s criticism levelled against those opposing the Carbon Capture and Storage technology came in the wake of Greenpeace issuing a report saying that the technology would not offer any solution to the problem.

The lawmaker observed that the Carbon Capture and Storage technology was essential at the moment before renewable energy became easily available and accessible in all sectors.

The lawmaker said this after delivering a speech to the European parliament’s environment committee. His proposals were later discussed by the same committee.

It is the intention of the European Union to have up to twelve Carbon Capture and Storage trial power stations operating by the year 2015. In that regard financial incentives and a regulatory framework are among the things that are being considered in a bid to move the energy sector to action.