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Storage of Carbon Dioxide (Inspections etc.) Regulations 2012

My Lords, I declare an interest as president of the Carbon Capture and Storage Association. Given that geological formations do not respect international boundaries, are protocols in place to handle the quite significant likelihood that some of the proposed repositories will cross the border between Scottish waters and English waters? This is a problem which the oil industry faces and solves regularly, and it is simply a matter of ensuring that appropriate protocols are in place in this area as well.