Europe's largest carbon capture facility is now officially open at Yara Sluiskil in the Netherlands. The plant is designed to capture and liquefy 800,000 tons of carbon dioxide per year. That CO2 will be transported by Northern Lights vessels to the storage site at Oygarden, Norway, making it one of the first large-scale cross-border carbon transport and storage chains in operation. The project matters because it moves carbon capture from pilot demonstrations to an actual industrial service. Instead of releasing process emissions from fertilizer production, the CO2 gets shipped offshore and locked away. It also tests the business model for shared CO2 transport and storage infrastructure in Europe, which other industrial emitters may be able to use.
