Shell CCS plant emits more than it is capturing!

Thank you for the questions and comments. I would encourage people to read our Energy Transition Report where we outline our climate targets and the solutions we are working on, including CCS, that will help us get there: https://www.shell.com/promos/energy-and-innovation/shell-energy-transition-strategy/_jcr_content.stream/1618407326759/7c3d5b317351891d2383b3e9f1e511997e516639/shell-energy-transition-strategy-2021.pdf The report has a section specifically on CCS, copied below for easy reference: CAPTURING CARBON Most climate scientists are clear that using technology to store carbon plays an important role in the transition of the energy system. The IPCC 1.5°C scenarios show that even when the energy system reaches net-zero emissions, there will be residual emissions because some sectors and end users will not be able to eliminate the use of hydrocarbons. Some of these residual emissions will need to be stored. Today, carbon capture and storage (CCS) facilities around the world can capture and store around 40 million tonnes per annum (mtpa) of CO2. Accelerating the pace of CCS deployment requires continued collaboration between governments, industry and investors, among others, to help unlock financing capacity, accelerate technology development and encourage public support. We recognise the scale of the challenge in developing CCS globally as quickly and as widely as needed. Today, Shell is involved in seven of the 51 large-scale CCS projects globally, listed in 2019 by the Global CCS Institute. These seven projects store around 5 mtpa of CO2, or around 12.5% of global CCS capacity. By the end of 2020, for example, our Quest CCS project in Canada had captured and safely stored more than 5.5 million tonnes of CO2 since it began operating in 2015. In Norway, Shell, our project partners and the Norwegian government have taken the final investment decision on the Northern Lights CCS project. This transformative project aims to become the first carbon storage facility with capacity to transport and store CO2 from industrial facilities in Norway and potentially from across Europe. In 2020, Shell invested around $70 million in CCS. This included progressing opportunities and operating costs for CCS assets in which Shell has an interest. We seek to have access to 25 mtpa of CCS capacity by 2035 – equal to 25 CCS facilities the size of our Quest project, or around 20% of the capacity of all CCS projects being studied around the world today.

Dear Shell, You say that the Global Witness analysis is wrong. Your own report suggests that CCS is not a sustainable method. In the report you link to, you calculate that your CO2e amount of carbon emitted is 63 million tonnes in 2020, but you only managed to store 0.94 million tonnes in carbon capture and storage and a maximum of 4.3 million tonnes in offsets. Unless the 2021 report shows that you are suddenly capturing and offsetting more carbon - maybe half of what you emit, and going up - this is mere greenwashing. Disappointingly, more of what we expect and not a step-change in the right direction

Shell is trying to turn around their "100% climate bad" business to something good, better. Thats good. The problem for me is that I dont trust the companies in this sector. The people now leading and working for these companies may be "good" and correct with the truth, but I dont believe that it has been so. The most of these companies have been saying/lobbying far too long that climate change is not due to man and fossil fuels and prevented the actions that now are taking place for far too many years. There should be a lot of examples showing this from the past, and these companies are now/still paying the price for it. The trust is not there . So Shell: be very correct and transparent with your figures and how you calculateed them and let in others to examine. But most of all, keep on investing the ocean of money that is beeing made and has been made, in taking away all the CO2 in the fuels produced. And take it one step further. Invest in technlogy and facilities for extracting CO2 from the air. In my opnion, this should be you main business/investment.

This analysis is simply wrong. Our Quest facility was designed some years ago as a demonstration project to prove the underlying CCS concept, while capturing around a third of CO2 emissions. It is not a hydrogen production facility. The hydrogen projects we’re planning – like Polaris – will use a new technology that captures more than 90% of emissions. Global Witness are comparing apples with pears. Shell publicly reports Quests Co2 data. The total emissions from our combined assets fall under our emissions targets which we publish on an annual basis in our Sustainability Report (https://reports.shell.com/sustainability-report/2020/our-performance-data/greenhouse-gas-and-energy-data.html). We also publicly report the Quest CO2 data the Government of Alberta’s website (https://open.alberta.ca/dataset?q=quest+ccs&sort=date_modified+desc&metadata_created=), the content of which is verified by an independent third party. We have also published a LinkedIn article about our Quest CCS facility here: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/carbon-capture-sequestration-critical-technology-energy-pierce?trk=public_post-content_share-article Decarbonised hydrogen can play a key role in reducing emissions from hard to abate sectors. Shell publicly advocates for stringent CO2 emissions standards for the production of decarbonised hydrogen. Our decarbonised hydrogen policy position is available our website: https://www.shell.com/promos/energy-and-innovation/v1/policies-to-accelerate-hydrogen-deployment/_jcr_content.stream/1635424139330/81be782c60e919b869dd21f75b3290973bb29f6d/shell-advocacy-hydrogen.pdf Shell is also developing renewable hydrogen projects. We operate the largest green electrolyser of its kind in Europe at our Rheinland energy and chemicals park and are planning a 200 MW renewable hydrogen facility in Rotterdam.

Dear Ingmar Rentzhog Thank you for getting your climate warning to level 2! We have reached out to Shell and asked for a response. I will keep you updated on any progress! /Adam We Don't Have Time

All smoke stacks are creating too much emissions.

Sad!

What in the world are they thinking!? Time do understand and rethink what they should do for the future. The should pay off their huge debt to MOther Earth