Empty North Sea gas fields to be used to bury 10m tonnes of C02

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Ports of Rotterdam, Antwerp and Ghent to pipe greenhouse gas into vast under-sea reservoir

Three of the largest ports in Europe - Rotterdam, Antwerp and Ghent - are to be used to capture and bury 10 million tonnes of CO2 emissions under the North Sea in what will be the biggest project of its...

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