1. CARBON CAPTURE:
Europe's climate plans collide with 'NUMBY'
BARENDRECHT, Netherlands -- Everything seemed set for the first large Dutch experiment in carbon capture and storage last year. The engineering seemed simple enough, piping 800,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide from a Royal Dutch Shell PLC oil refinery in Rotterdam 15 miles to this middle-class suburb. Here, it would be pumped deep underground into an empty natural gas reservoir. But then politics erupted. While the national government seems determined to go ahead with plan, it appears it will have to walk over a majority here who remain opposed. Go to story #1
Restore the beach. Just don't call it climate adaptation.