Final report for One North East And NEPIC 21/12/10 - The Carbon ...

The case for a Tees CCS networkFinal ReportAny organisation should share lessons with others on stakeholder organisation 99 , riskmanagement and allocation, attracting investment, technical specification 100 , and CCScosts and performance.Recommendation Three – Provide key stakeholders with an independent, robustassessment of accessible CO 2 storage options.Recognising that transport and storage costs and risks will depend on the storage sitechosen, and that transparency will be critical to obtaining the necessary stakeholdersupport, this report recommends a continuation of efforts already underway to evaluateaccessible CO 2 storage options.Recommendation Four – Strengthen and support the commercial scale for a CCSanchor project and a CCS network in North East England.Local stakeholders should critically review, strengthen and where appropriate, stronglypromote proposals for CCS demonstration projects to be located in the North East ofEngland and the overall business case for a CCS network. This will ensure suitablenetwork anchor projects are seen as viable in delivering all the objectives of CCSdemonstration and have the support of stakeholders making them realistic candidates tonucleate a CCS network.Recommendation Five – Include CCS within planning policies.Continue to examine opportunities to reduce costs and barriers through the optimalinclusion of CCS infrastructure requirements within national and local planning policies.This could include updating further the North South Tees Industrial DevelopmentFramework to safeguard further potential rights of way identified for potential CO 2pipelines.Recommendation Six –Explore public/NGO support for CCS deployment in the TeesValley.Consider a pilot public/NGO engagement study to understand social drivers and barriersfor CCS deployment in Teesside.Recommendation Seven – Continue to support other options for CO 2 reduction.Recognising that reducing the amount of CO 2 to collect will reduce absolute costs forcapture, transport and storage, Tees Valley CO 2 emitters will still need to continue toexamine all opportunities for reducing CO 2 emissions and share their forecast emissionswhere possible.Recommendation Eight – Examine the impacts of pipeline entry specifications onthe costs and feasibility of CO 2 capture and compression for North East emittersand potential storage operations.Recognising that the entry specification for any transport network may influence captureand storage investments, the Task Force should ensure key stakeholders are fullyinformed as to the impacts of choices, to ensure system-wide benefits are not threatened.99 See for example Yorkshire Forward‟s CCS network, Scotland, Rotterdam and the ZEP Task Force.100 As an example, DNV‟s Pipetrans phase project examines common entry specification for CO 2 pipelines.68