Build confidence and trust. Take a step-by-step approach when working with government. Build confidence and trust by demonstrating tangible progress at each stage. Take photographs so politicians have something to show.
Keep communicating. During this early phase of hub development, there is so much uncertainty – policy development requires trust and continual dialogue between hub developers, transportation and storage developers, emitters, policy makers and politicians. Understand the political process.
Help governments understand the risks. It is vital for the hub partners to provide input into the risks that government is taking. Governments typically have the tools and experience to incentivize and regulate the CO2 transportation business but they can struggle with understanding geology and the associated storage risks.
Understand government processes and timelines. Government timelines for deciding policy support are driven by political processes whereas CCUS hub development timelines are driven by industrial project maturity processes. These two timelines do not always coincide and sometimes hub partners need to make commercial decisions before detailed technical work (FEED) is completed. Continued dialogue between government and hub partners is necessary.