Environmental effects related to the building of transport infrastructure

 

The captured CO2 will be transported in liquid form under high pressure from the power plant to storage through a pipeline or to ports where it can be pumped onto tankers. In the latter case liquid CO2 is carried to injection sites at sea. A smaller fraction is expected to be transported by tanker trucks.

Environmental effects associated with building of CO2 infrastructure are primarily related to consumption of energy in excavation and transport.

Effects are predominantly emissions to air. Sea injection requires special facilities. These effects are inherent in the CCS system and should be fully included on the debit side of the environmental account of the technology. Energy consumption and associated environmental effects related to building of transport infrastructure primarily depend on the distance between CO2 sources and stores.