Shell To Sea newsletter - 07/12/2007
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Friday December 28, 2007 22:02
by JM
Rossport
Melkøya emissions soar
Just as top government officials are gathering in Bali for the UN Climate Change Conference comes news that carbon dioxide emissions at a new gas power plant in northern Norway are exceeding all limits.
Newspaper Aftenposten reported Tuesday that the new plant at Melkøya outside the Arctic city of Hammerfest spewed out 1.1 million tons of carbon emissions just in its first two months of operation.
... Neither the technical operations at Melkøya nor emissions levels have gone as planned. Aftenposten reported that the Snow White gas field is in danger of becoming "a climate-gas nightmare" for both Norwegian politicians and StatoilHydro officials....
07 December 2007
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