CCS Policy
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Calls Intensify for More Global Action on CCS
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Despite recent successes such as Britain's ambitious new CCS Roadmap (see UK Relaunches CCS Policy, 4/16) and Norway's newly-opened Mongstad demonstration...
Scientists meeting to set world’s first standard for carbon capture
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Scientists will meet in Calgary this week to complete work on what is being touted as the world’s first standard for the underground storage of carbon dioxide...
CCS lessons learned report American Electric Power Mountaineer CCS II project phase 1
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The front end engineering and design (FEED) package developed within Phase I incorporated knowledge gained and lessons learnt (construction, operations, and...
Legal and regulatory developments related to carbon capture and storage between November 2010 – June 2011
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As a part of the Policy, Legal and Regulatory (PLR) team’s research and preparatory activity for the drafting of the Global Status of CCS Report 2011, a legal...
Global Opportunities and Strategic Directions Workshop
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Open to Institute Members, this workshop will be attended by a group of public and private sector leaders to discuss opportunities and challenges...
World Bank Trust Fund boosts capacity development
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Two years ago, the Global CCS Institute and the Norwegian Government contributed about US$8 million to a Carbon Capture and Storage Capacity Building...
China looks to add carbon storage to anti-climate change armoury
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Interview transcript: China looks to CCS China has given the strongest signal yet that it will invest in Carbon Capture and Storage. That's the...
Abbott chokes on greenhouse gas
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Australian Opposition Leader Tony Abbott has wrongly described carbon dioxide as weightless in his ongoing attack against the Government's plan to reduce...
Biomass Power with CCS
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Domestic biomass could provide up to 10 percent of the U.K.’s energy needs by 2050, and coupling biomass power with carbon capture and storage (CCS) may be the...
Project Development Approach for Power Capture in the Execute stage
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Objective The objectives under this stage are to implement the selected project processes:
Championing carbon capture could win Julia Gillard the next election
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CCS key to Australian Government‘s election fortunes Brown's insistence on excluding carbon capture and storage projects from the new $10 billion Clean Energy...
Australian govt to find funds for carbon capture
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Gillard backs funding for CCS Prime Minister Julia Gillard has rejected claims that her government will stop investing in carbon capture and storage, saying a...
US Supreme Court decision a tiny step to reducing uncertainty
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Last week, the Supreme Court of the United States ruled that the emissions of power plants could not be reduced through claims of federal common law public...
The road to Durban for CCS - Next stop, Panama
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Some 3,000 delegates and observers gathered from 6-17 June at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) 34th Subsidiary Body for...
CCS Ready Policy: Considerations and Recommended Practices for Policymakers
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They also provide detailed guidelines for policymakers in developing CCS Ready policy, and for regulators in implementing such a policy.
Carbon dioxide storage legal in Spain
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What is it about the Spanish that seems to get things done lately? If it’s not the World Cup, it’s Nadal. If it’s not Barcelona, it's Real (well, sometimes...
Policy makers the key to commercially scaling and deploying CCS technology
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One of the things that keeps me awake at night is concern that governments and international financial institutions will not do enough, quickly enough to...
ICO2N's perspective on CCS development in Canada: good progress, but need to keep developing "the next wave"
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ICO2N, the Integrated CO2 Network, is a group of industry participants committed to progressing CCS in Canada. It includes oil and gas producers, oil sands...
CCS Policy: Is the balance right?
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Earlier this week, in a summary report for renewable technologies, the IPCC reiterated that the demand for energy and associated services to meet social and...
Five questions for Changhua Wu of the Climate Group on CCS and its prospects in China
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For some time now almost every climate change discussion anywhere in the world has made reference to the fact that China’s demand for energy has grown and...
German cabinet approves draft CCS act
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Meine Damen und Herren, the German Federal Cabinet has reached a compromise on CO2 storage and approved a draft CCS act required by the European CCS directive...
South Africa's experience with CO2 storage - seven questions for Tony Surridge
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Hi Tony, thanks very much for agreeing to talk to us about South Africa's experience with storage. Your organisation was involved in the creating of an Atlas...
Clean Energy Ministers commit to accelerating CCS
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It didn’t get much media coverage, but last week global energy ministers met in Abu Dhabi. They agreed to a proposal by its Carbon Capture, Use and Storage (...
Rotterdam CCS Network Project: Case Study methodology report
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This report outlines the methodology used to capture the history and lessons learnt by the Rotterdam CCS Network Project. The methodology report looks to...
Europe publishes 'emissions roadmap' to 2050
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Europe is sticking to its guns by reaffirming an ambitious commitment to 80-95 per cent emissions cuts by 2050.
