Volume of carbon dioxide successfully captured and permanently stored in Scotland: EIR release

Information requested

"I would like the Scottish Government to detail the volume of carbon dioxide that has been successfully captured and permanently stored in Scotland (or Scottish waters) in each of the last five years (2020- 2025)".

Response

As the information you have requested is 'environmental information' for the purposes of the Environmental Information (Scotland) Regulations 2004 (EIRs), we are required to deal with your request under those Regulations. We are applying the exemption at section 39(2) of the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002 (FOISA), so that we do not also have to deal with your request under FOISA.

This exemption is subject to the 'public interest test'. Therefore, taking account of all the circumstances of this case, we have considered if the public interest in disclosing the information outweighs the public interest in applying the exemption. We have found that, on balance, the public interest lies in favour of upholding the exemption, because there is no public interest in dealing with the same request under two different regimes.
This is essentially a technical point and has no material effect on the outcome of your request.

Response to your request

During the period between 2020 and 2025, the volume of carbon dioxide that has been successfully captured and permanently stored in Scotland or in Scottish waters for each of the years is 0 tonnes.

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