{"id":293235,"date":"2025-07-26T12:05:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-26T12:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/293235\/"},"modified":"2025-07-26T12:05:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-26T12:05:10","slug":"germanys-budget-cuts-leave-heavy-industry-stuck-with-dirty-tech-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/293235\/","title":{"rendered":"Germany\u2019s Budget Cuts Leave Heavy Industry Stuck with Dirty Tech"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"media-ui-Paragraph_text-SqIsdNjh0t0-\" data-component=\"paragraph\">In Geseke, a small town in Germany\u2019s western industrial heartland, plans to launch a large-scale carbon capture project at a local cement plant have been put on ice.<\/p>\n<p class=\"media-ui-Paragraph_text-SqIsdNjh0t0-\" data-component=\"paragraph\">Operator Heidelberg Materials AG had received European Union subsidies for the green project that\u2019s set to save 700,000 tons of carbon emissions annually, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heidelbergmaterials.com\/en\/pr-2023-12-15\" title=\"First fully decarbonised cement plant in Germany: EU Innovation Fund backs Heidelberg Materials&#039; GeZero project with \u20ac191 million\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">planned<\/a> to start construction next year. But the company \u2014 which last month <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/terminal\/SY1N7BT1UM0W\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs- whitespace-normal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-component=\"link\">startedBloomberg Terminal<\/a> capturing and liquefying emissions in Norway \u2014 is no longer staking out a timeline for its German project because the conditions for a prompt, final investment decision aren\u2019t given.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In Geseke, a small town in Germany\u2019s western industrial heartland, plans to launch a large-scale carbon capture project&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":293236,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5310],"tags":[108983,51,24825,18038,10594,2000,299,1824,1234,11670,40962,59681,1115,8524],"class_list":{"0":"post-293235","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-germany","8":"tag-aurubis-ag","9":"tag-business","10":"tag-carbon-emissions","11":"tag-climate-neutrality","12":"tag-decarbonization","13":"tag-eu","14":"tag-europe","15":"tag-germany","16":"tag-government","17":"tag-green","18":"tag-heidelberg-materials-ag","19":"tag-industries","20":"tag-norway","21":"tag-u-s-immigration-and-customs-enforcement"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114919448688890961","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=293235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293235\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/293236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=293235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=293235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=293235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}