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 start reducing their emissions, we learned in the entourage of the Minister of Industry that he is going to Dunkirk on Monday.
Minister Roland Lescure goes to the facilities of the steel company ArcelorMittal in Dunkirk (North) to recall the State’s support for the company’s already announced decarbonisation plan, and to await the green light from Brussels. He must also go to Pas-de-Calais in Rety on the site of Chaux et Dolomies (Lhoist group), French leader in lime, immersed in a decarbonization process.
More than 13 million euros to carry out studies in the North
The Dunkerque port industrial zone, which alone generates 21% of industrial CO2 emissions, will 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 to decarbonise the area through collective infrastructure, the ministry said.
The project is complex: it consists of finding different manufacturing processes, which do not emit CO2, for activities such as the steel industry or the manufacture of cement or lime, in particular by replacing fossil fuels with processes that use carbon-free 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 the installation of heat recovery networks around activities that require furnaces and very high energy intensity.
As the investments to be planned are very strong, they will be pooled so that manufacturers of fertilizers, lime, cement or other emitting activities can green or decarbonise 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.
Source: BFM TV
