Norway digs deep to tap carbon storage boom The country is leading a major carbon capture operation to store up to 5m tonnes of CO2 per year 24 January 2021 • 3:00pm The contractors have already started dynamiting the steep rocky fjord side to make way for tanks which will in three years start receiving the world’s first deliveries of industrial CO2 emissions for storage beneath the North Sea. “Last week, we formally had the first blast,” says Sverre Johannesen Overå, project director for the Northern Lights CO2 transport and storage project, showing a blurry view of the site from a webcam.