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Norway’s Equinor Admits It “Over-Reported” Amount of Carbon Captured At Flagship Project for Years. (www.desmog.com)
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[–] vegskret 7 points 3 weeks ago

Seeing that this is a 67% government owned company (according to Wikipedia), that's not a good look. And seeing that government is stating that it wants to be a leader in sustainability, while also admitting that it is not even close (actually about halfway) to reaching its own carbon emissions goals for 2030, also not a good look. Source in Norwegian

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago

I don't know folks... It kinda seems like carbon capture might be a scam propped up by polluters who just want to get away with a few more years of destroying the environment to maintain business as usual.