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Tom Young and James Murray, BusinessGreen , Friday 13 February 2009 at 00:15:00 Company investigating using increasingly redundant North Sea gas pipes to pump captured CO2 solution into old gas beds The National Grid is planning to offer a new service that will take CO2 emissions from UK power stations and store them in rocks under the North Sea.... > > (link)

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