How Norway plans to become Europe's CO2 graveyard. Huge steel tanks connected to a web of gleaming pipes overlook the rock and conifers.
It is here, on the island of Oygarden, an hour's drive from the pretty town of Bergen, that Norway intends to recover Europe's carbon dioxide (CO2) in the coming years. Carbon capture and storage (CCS) aims to recover greenhouse gas directly where it is emitted (like factory fumes) and bury it underground in a way that permanent.