Report on survey among residents: Results and implications for decision procedure and communication campaign

This report presents the results of the first study on public knowledge and awareness of CCS in general, public trust in CCS stakeholders, and initial public perceptions of CCS activities planned for the Northern Netherlands. Because the location for CO2 storage in this region is not yet known, it was not possible to administer a survey to people living near such a planned storage location and ask them about their perceptions of these plans in the context of other local issues. Therefore, we administered a traditional survey to a representative sample of the Dutch general public (N = 1109) and to an additional broad sample of people living in the Northern Netherlands (N = 349) to examine levels of public knowledge and awareness of CCS, trust in CCS stakeholders, and initial public attitudes toward CCS activities planned for the Northern Netherlands.