LONDON | Wed Nov 9, 2011 11:13am EST
(Reuters) – Oil and gas major Shell stepped up its involvement in carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology on Wednesday by formalizing its partnership with Britain’s SSE to install CCS technology at one of the utility’s Scottish gas-fired power plants.
The two companies signed a joint development agreement for the Peterhead CCS project on Wednesday, three weeks after the British government scrapped plans to fund a CCS project at Scottish Power’s Longannet coal-fired plant.
“Shell believes CCS is an essential technology in the fight against global climate change and we remain committed to developing CCS in the UK,” said Glen Cayley, vice president at Shell UK.
The two companies plan to capture carbon emitted from one 385 megawatt (MW) turbine at SSE’s Peterhead gas-fired power plant, which will then be transported to and stored in Shell’s depleted Goldeneye offshore gas field.
A detailed engineering study for the project is scheduled for the second half of 2012, depending on whether it will be successful in securing EU and/or UK government funding.
Britain plans to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 34 percent below 1990 levels by 2020 and CCS technology fitted to carbon-intensive power plants is considered key to reaching this target, but the technology has so far not been developed to commercial scale.
CCS projects were thrown into doubt after the government’s decision not to fund the Longannet project, but the energy ministry said it remains committed to the technology and blamed its decision on project-specific problems.
“We will be considering projects through an open and transparent selection process to be launched as soon as possible,” a spokesman for the ministry said, referring to the government CCS funding scheme which had set aside around one billion pounds for the country’s first scheme.
(Reporting by Karolin Schaps)
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Royal Dutch Shell conspired directly with Hitler, financed the Nazi Party, was anti-Semitic and sold out its own Dutch Jewish employees to the Nazis. Shell had a close relationship with the Nazis during and after the reign of Sir Henri Deterding, an ardent Nazi, and the founder and decades long leader of the Royal Dutch Shell Group. His burial ceremony, which had all the trappings of a state funeral, was held at his private estate in Mecklenburg, Germany. The spectacle (photographs below) included a funeral procession led by a horse drawn funeral hearse with senior Nazis officials and senior Royal Dutch Shell directors in attendance, Nazi salutes at the graveside, swastika banners on display and wreaths and personal tributes from Adolf Hitler and Reichsmarschall, Hermann Goring. Deterding was an honored associate and supporter of Hitler and a personal friend of Goring.
Deterding was the guest of Hitler during a four day summit meeting at Berchtesgaden. Sir Henri and Hitler both had ambitions on Russian oil fields. Only an honored personal guest would be rewarded with a private four day meeting at Hitler’s mountain top retreat.
IN JULY 2007, MR BILL CAMPBELL (ABOVE, A RETIRED GROUP AUDITOR OF SHELL INTERNATIONAL SENT AN EMAIL TO EVERY UK MP AND MEMBER OF THE HOUSE OF LORDS: 
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A head-cut image of Alfred Donovan (now deceased) appears courtesy of The Wall Street Journal.
