The industrial basins of Dunkirk and Fos-sur-Mer, the two areas that emit the most greenhouse gases in France, will be helped by the State to initiate the reduction of their emissions, we learned in the entourage of the Minister of Industry who is going to Dunkirk on Monday.
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Minister Roland Lescure goes to the site of the steelmaker ArcelorMittal in Dunkirk (North) to recall the support of the State for the decarbonization plan of the company already announced, and awaiting a green light from Brussels.
He must also go to Pas-de-Calais in Rety on the Chaux et Dolomies site (Lhoist group), the French leader in lime, engaged in a decarbonization process.
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The industrial port area of Dunkirk, which alone accounts for 21% of industrial CO2 emissions, is set to become the first "
low-carbon industrial zone
" (ZIBAC) in France, with the granting of aid of 13.6 million euros to carry out engineering and feasibility studies for decarbonizing the area through collective infrastructure, the ministry said.
The project is complex: it involves finding different manufacturing processes, which do not emit CO2, for activities such as steelmaking or the manufacture of cement or lime, in particular by replacing fossil fuels with processes using decarbonated hydrogen.
But also to capture the CO2 emitted by industrial activities to sequester it in the basement or transform it.
Finally, it can also involve setting up recovered heat networks around activities requiring furnaces and very high energy intensity.
As the investments to be planned are very heavy, they will be pooled so that manufacturers of fertilizers, lime, cement or other emitting activities can green or decarbonize their processes.
The Dunkirk basin employs 17,000 people.
The project called DKarbonation brings together 30 public and private partners, led by a collective called Euranergie.
The Fos-sur-Mer project, near Marseille, is called Syrius.