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Is it fair? Is it fair? Is it fair? That a technology which can no longer be legally installed should be the determinant factor in setting a sectors benchmark level. That a technology which can no longer be legally installed should result in the closure of the rest of the nitric-acid industry with the loss of more than 10,000 direct jobs and considerably more indirect jobs. That a technology which can no longer be legally installed should result in the loss of Europe’s self-reliance for food.
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Is it fair?
Is it fair?
Is it fair?
That a technology which can
no longer be legally installed should be the determinant factor in setting a sectors benchmark level.
That a technology which can
no longer be legally installed should result in the closure of the rest of the nitric-acid industry with the loss of more than 10,000 direct jobs and considerably more indirect jobs.
That a technology which can
no longer be legally installed should result in the loss of Europe’s self-reliance for food.
Nitric-acid plants
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“Bad Apples” Old plants will likely need to close.
The majority of these plants will through heavy investment be able to install a mix of “legally” available technology to reduce their emissions significantly.
75% reduction in emissionsThe 10% most efficient installations.
7 of the 11 plants dictating the benchmark proposed by DG CLIMA operate with NSCR technology that can no longer be installed.
Benchmark based on NSCR technology which is no longer possible to installBenchmark based on “average performance of the 10% most efficient installations”
A fair way to determine the benchmark is to base the calculation on the “average performance of the 10% most efficient installations”.
DG CLIMA Benchmark
Average best 10% Benchmark
Bad A
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Inclusion of NSCR will result in unavoidable plant closures and loss of jobs.
Benchmark based on “average performance of the 10% most efficient installations”
NSCR included in benchmark
NSCR excluded from
benchmark
DIRECT-JOBS
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CLOSE 3000CLOSE
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Plants
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15% Old plants without the possibility to upgrade and install new technology will require to close.
Because of the special nature of NSCR plants they should have their own fixed benchmark.
48% of the current population are fed thanks to mineral fertilizers.
New advancements in technology and considerable investment will allow plants to make substantial emission reductions. This will only be possible if a fair and reasonable approach using the “average performance of the 10% most efficient installations”.
75% in emission reductions
If NSCR technology is used as the basis of determining the benchmark the industry in Europe will be nearly wiped out. The benchmark levels would be unachievable with the additional CO2 cost resulting in companies operating at a loss. This would result in the loss of more than 10,000 direct jobs and tens of thousands more indirect jobs.
If plants were forced to close in Europe with the production capacity shifting to neighbouring regions the increase in global emissions would be huge. Taking Russia as an example an extra 37million/t/kg/CO2 would be emitted. Equal to the total saved in the whole of ETSII .
Fertilizers provide the only means to keep pace with the global
demand for food.
Natural gas is a fundamentalraw material for modern fertilizer
production.
12% of global greenhouse gas emissions come from changes in
land use.
Fertilizers play a key role in meeting the EU ’s ambitious
targets for renewable energy.
The European fertilizer industry is deemed to be the sector most
exposed to ‘carbon leakage’.
Without fertilizers…Europe will lose its self-sufficiency in food and be less able to contribute to world needs.
The world will have 3 billion more mouths to feed by 2050.
Without fertilizers…......many will go hungry.
Without affordable natural gas…European fertilizer costs will be prohibitively expensive and Europe’s food production will suffer.
With more efficient use of existing landand greater crop yields, agriculturecan minimise its effect on the environment.
Without them….. Europe will continueto rely heavily on fossil fuels, anunsustainable natural resource.
Without a European fertilizer industry…production will move to less environmentally conscious regions with far greater carbon emissions.
of losing a vital industry
Consequences
It is fair.
To set benchmarks in accordance with
“the average performance of the 10% most efficient installations in a sector”By setting benchmarks in accordance with Article 10a of the directive the fertilizer industry has, with considerable investment, the chance of survival.
It will also result in emission reductions of
75%.
NSCR plants because of their special characteristics should have their own fixed benchmark.
