The Russian Legal Information Agency has reported that the Baltiysky Zavod shipyard has dropped its appeal against a court decision to impound the world's first floating nuclear power plant, which it is helping to build, World Nuclear News reported.

Prior to the summer the UK government ran a public consultation regarding proposed changes to the licensing and leasing of offshore energy in UK waters. The Offshore Energy Strategic Environmental Assessment (ONSEA2) expands provisions to include renewable energy sources and CCS.

The Global Status of CCS: 2011 report is the Institute’s main publication and gives a solid overview of the current global CCS activities, as well as the major opportunities and challenges experienced by large-scale integrated CCS projects.

On the 4th of October the General Assembly of the European Technology Platform for Zero Emission Fossil Fuel Power Plants (ZEP) took place, with an increasing sense of urgency that the platform needs to be clearer about what public policies it wants to make CCS commercially viable.

For more than two years, international observers have been struggling to grasp the complicated political game(s) in Germany surrounding the country’s transposition of the EU directive on CO2 storage. A holistic summary of the facts and the ‘noise’ around that issue has just been published today on GCCSI’s website.

On the 28th of September PGE (Polska Grupa Energetyczna) officially opened Poland's first power generation unit foreseen to be retrofitted with carbon dioxide capture.