Carbon capture and storage: does it work, and does it mean we can keep burning fossil fuels?
3 years, 4 months ago

Carbon capture and storage: does it work, and does it mean we can keep burning fossil fuels?

ABC  

Does Australia have a bad reputation on climate change? According to the US Department of Energy's Carbon Capture and Storage Database, there are 43 active sites where carbon capture and storage is taking place worldwide, including enhanced oil recovery projects. But critics, including Mark Ogge from the Australia Institute, say carbon capture and storage is a government fossil fuel handout, which is putting our transition to proven clean technology in peril. " The Gorgon gas facility in Western Australia is the world's largest "dedicated" CCS project, meaning the captured CO2 isn't used to extract more fossil fuels. "It's been re-branded as carbon capture and storage to basically greenwash it and allow the oil and gas industry to get taxpayer subsidies by presenting it as a climate abatement measure.

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Does carbon capture work?
4 months, 2 weeks ago

Does carbon capture work?

ABC  

Sabra Lane: The United Nations climate talks are continuing this week in Azerbaijan and there are lots of lobbyists there talking up carbon sequestration, a controversial technology that aims to capture and bury carbon dioxide emissions. Daniel Mercer: Danny Woodall is the director of operations for the plant's owner, US oil and gas behemoth Chevron. Danny Woodall: All studies that …

Labour has been sucked in by the carbon capture ‘con’
5 months, 3 weeks ago

Labour has been sucked in by the carbon capture ‘con’

The Independent  

Labour’s decision to spend £22bn on carbon capture and storage is the first major misstep from a government many of us in the global South had hoped would bring climate action and credibility to the world stage. Carbon capture and storage – in which carbon emissions from coal, oil and gas plants are captured and buried underground for eternity – …

Is this the key to combatting climate change? Scientists are using a giant vacuum in Iceland dubbed The Mammoth to suck 36,000 tonnes of CO2 from the air every year
10 months, 2 weeks ago

Is this the key to combatting climate change? Scientists are using a giant vacuum in Iceland dubbed The Mammoth to suck 36,000 tonnes of CO2 from the air every year

Daily Mail  

The Mammoth can remove the CO2 equivalent of 7,800 petrol cars each year Amongst all the complex science surrounding climate change, one possible solution sounds absurdly simple. Scientists have developed a massive vacuum in Iceland to suck up to 36,000 tonnes of CO2 from the air every single year The Mammoth, as the plant has been dubbed, uses 72 modular …

Carbon capture, storage emerge as a contentious issue after COP28 meet
1 year, 3 months ago

Carbon capture, storage emerge as a contentious issue after COP28 meet

Hindustan Times  

New Delhi: A person points at a stack of trays holding treated limestone, used to absorb CO2 from the air, at Heirloom's new plant, in Tracy, California, on November 9. After the UN climate summit earlier this month agreed to slowly phase out fossil fuels to achieve net zero emissions by 2050, a mitigation measure known as carbon capture, utilisation …

What is carbon capture and how much of a solution is it after COP28?
1 year, 3 months ago

What is carbon capture and how much of a solution is it after COP28?

Associated Press  

An agreement at the United Nations-led climate conference to transition away from fossil fuels brought a measure of relief for climate activists, even as many said it doesn’t go far enough. Skeptics have said carbon capture has been oversold as a climate change solution so that the fossil fuel industry can keep burning lots of oil, coal and natural gas. …

Large-scale carbon capture an ‘illusion’ for oil and gas companies
1 year, 4 months ago

Large-scale carbon capture an ‘illusion’ for oil and gas companies

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Oil and gas companies must …

The government may store carbon dioxide under the nation's forests
1 year, 4 months ago

The government may store carbon dioxide under the nation's forests

NPR  

The government may store carbon dioxide under the nation's forests Capturing carbon dioxide pollution and storing it underground is a controversial climate solution. A MARTÍNEZ, HOST: Both big industries and the Biden administration are promoting a possible climate solution that involves trapping carbon dioxide from smokestacks and storing it underground. JULIA SIMON, BYLINE: To understand why the U.S. Forest Service …

What is carbon capture? How the UK government plans to slash the amount of CO2 being released into the atmosphere by catching it and storing it under the North Sea
1 year, 8 months ago

What is carbon capture? How the UK government plans to slash the amount of CO2 being released into the atmosphere by catching it and storing it under the North Sea

Daily Mail  

It has been billed as an innovative way to allow Britain to slash its greenhouse gas emissions. CCS is a technology designed to capture carbon emissions from power plants, industrial processes and other sources, and store them permanently underground WHAT IS CARBON CAPTURE AND STORAGE? Pictured, a carbon removal facility from Carbon Engineering, a Canadian-based clean energy company CCUS involves …

UK to grant hundreds of new oil and gas licenses, ignoring calls from environmentalists
1 year, 8 months ago

UK to grant hundreds of new oil and gas licenses, ignoring calls from environmentalists

Associated Press  

LONDON — Britain said on Monday it will grant hundreds of new oil and gas licenses in the North Sea in a bid for energy independence, ignoring calls from environmental campaigners and the United Nations to stop the development of new fossil fuel projects. “The problem is not simply fossil fuel emissions, it’s fossil fuels — period,” Guterres told reporters …

Carbon capture might finally work but taxpayers must not be burdened unnecessarily
1 year, 8 months ago

Carbon capture might finally work but taxpayers must not be burdened unnecessarily

The Telegraph  

The International Energy Agency has said carbon capture has so far “not lived up to its promise”, and questioned whether it will be able to play a major role in the transition to net zero by mid-century. The Climate Change Committee estimates carbon capture will be by far one of the most expensive green technologies by 2035. Getting carbon capture …

World's biggest carbon capture plant running at one third capacity, Chevron Australia reveals
1 year, 10 months ago

World's biggest carbon capture plant running at one third capacity, Chevron Australia reveals

ABC  

United States oil and gas giant Chevron has acknowledged its flagship carbon capture and storage project off Australia's north-west coast is operating at just a third of its capacity as problems bedevil the facility. Key points: The plant off WA's north opened six years ago but has been plagued by operating problems since Chevron Australia's David Fallon stressed the project …

Could carbon caverns under the sea fire up your funds?
1 year, 11 months ago

Could carbon caverns under the sea fire up your funds?

Daily Mail  

What if it were possible to slash our greenhouse gas levels by sucking carbon out of industrial emissions and storing it in vast caverns under the sea? According to the Centre for Climate and Energy Solutions, carbon capture can achieve 14 per cent of the global greenhouse gas emissions reductions needed by 2050. Businesses involved in carbon capture and storage …

Does carbon capture and storage work and can it help Australia achieve net zero by 2050?
2 years, 6 months ago

Does carbon capture and storage work and can it help Australia achieve net zero by 2050?

ABC  

It's the multi-billion-dollar question plaguing the oil and gas industry: Can Australia reach net zero emissions by 2050 while continuing to burn fossil fuels? The risk of overpromising Federal Resources Minister Madeleine King says carbon capture and storage has a "vital role to play to help Australia meet its net zero targets". Mark Ogge, principal climate and energy adviser at …

What is carbon capture and storage, and could it help halt the climate crisis?
2 years, 11 months ago

What is carbon capture and storage, and could it help halt the climate crisis?

The Independent  

Sign up to the Independent Climate email for the latest advice on saving the planet Get our free Climate email Get our free Climate email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. According to the International Energy Agency the strengthening of climate goals and new investment incentives "are delivering unprecedented momentum …

Carbon capture and storage: Where should the world store CO2? It’s a moral dilemma
3 years, 3 months ago

Carbon capture and storage: Where should the world store CO2? It’s a moral dilemma

Firstpost  

Funding for carbon capture and storage is insufficient. On the other hand, it might be important to develop storage sites in economies where the current and future demand for carbon capture and storage is greatest. Developing storage sites in economies where expected demand for carbon capture is highest overwhelmingly favours developing regions of Asia. In India and China, for instance, …

Carbon capture storage trial in Queensland to demonstrate Morrison's promise to reduce emissions via 'technology'
3 years, 4 months ago

Carbon capture storage trial in Queensland to demonstrate Morrison's promise to reduce emissions via 'technology'

ABC  

The Prime Minister Scott Morrison is in Glasgow touting his new 'technology, not taxes' energy policy, a key part of which involves rolling out carbon capture and storage. Key points: Proponents of a carbon capture and storage project in Queensland say it will demonstrate how the technology could be deployed across heavy CO2-emitting industries Proponents of a carbon capture and …

Can carbon capture facilities reverse climate change?
3 years, 5 months ago

Can carbon capture facilities reverse climate change?

Al Jazeera  

The world’s biggest such complex will capture 4,000 tonnes of greenhouse gas per year in boxes the size of shipping containers. But with plans under way for even larger “direct air capture” operations than the one in Iceland, proponents say this pioneering technology can help humanity to make the world carbon neutral and limit heating to the internationally agreed target …

Have we solved the carbon capture conundrum?
3 years, 5 months ago

Have we solved the carbon capture conundrum?

The Telegraph  

The centre of the chemical engineering department at Imperial College London is dominated by a cluster of stainless steel pipes stretching four storeys high. This pilot plant is part of Britain’s largest carbon capture research programme and is intended to demonstrate to students best practice in capturing and storing harmful carbon dioxide. Ministers are doubling down on the technology by …

A Midwest pipeline promises to return carbon dioxide to the ground
4 years ago

A Midwest pipeline promises to return carbon dioxide to the ground

Salon  

Most pipelines that snake around the United States carry carbon that was buried underground for millions of years and then dug up, destined to be burned in a combustion engine or furnace or boiler and emitted into the atmosphere. If it gets built, the project will prove a new business model for carbon capture in the biofuels industry and expand …

Climate crisis: ‘Virtually impossible’ to hit global environment targets without new carbon capture technology, report says
4 years, 6 months ago

Climate crisis: ‘Virtually impossible’ to hit global environment targets without new carbon capture technology, report says

The Independent  

Carbon dioxide emissions are the world’s biggest problem, and through the burning of fossil fuels which emit this potent greenhouse gas, our species is making it worse all the time. Despite carbon capture, utilisation and storage technologies remaining largely in their infancy and untested at scale, a major report from the International Energy Agency now states without their rapid uptake …

Angus Taylor says Australia has the world's largest carbon capture and storage project. Here's what he's not saying
4 years, 6 months ago

Angus Taylor says Australia has the world's largest carbon capture and storage project. Here's what he's not saying

ABC  

Federal Minister for Energy and Emissions Reduction Angus Taylor has been spruiking carbon capture and storage technology this week as part of the Federal Government's push to overhaul clean energy investment in Australia. Failed carbon capture cost millions of tonnes of emissions The project Mr Taylor is talking about is Australia's only large-scale carbon capture and storage operation, located at …

WHAT IS CARBON CAPTURING AND HOW DOES IT WORK?
5 years, 9 months ago

WHAT IS CARBON CAPTURING AND HOW DOES IT WORK?

Daily Mail  

Carbon Capture and Storage captures emissions produced from the use of fossil fuels in electricity generation and industrial processes. The use of CCS with renewable biomass is one of the few carbon abatement technolo­gies that can be used in a 'carbon-negative' mode ­– actually taking carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere. The process consists of three parts - capturing the …

Full carbon capture and storage can be achieved by 2022: Norway
8 years, 8 months ago

Full carbon capture and storage can be achieved by 2022: Norway

Firstpost  

By 2022, Norway could realise every step in the development of a technology many see as critical to reducing global carbon emissions, carbon capture and storage, it said on Monday. Oslo said it could capture carbon dioxide from an industrial plant, transport it by ship and inject it into an empty North Sea oil and gas reservoir for 4.3 billion …

Using Technology To Keep Carbon Emissions In Check
9 years, 2 months ago

Using Technology To Keep Carbon Emissions In Check

NPR  

Using Technology To Keep Carbon Emissions In Check Enlarge this image toggle caption Jim Urquhart/Reuters/Landov Jim Urquhart/Reuters/Landov The Paris agreement to curb climate change calls for a dramatic shift away from fossil fuels and the greenhouse gasses they emit, especially carbon dioxide. "The willingness to pay for CO2 to use it in industry is really not stacking up in the …

Geologists blast UN concerns over safety of carbon capture and storage
10 years, 11 months ago

Geologists blast UN concerns over safety of carbon capture and storage

Daily Mail  

IPCC report is 'outdated': Geologists blast UN concerns over safety of carbon capture and storage Report said risks include CO2 leaks, transport issues and seismic tremors ‘Negative tone’ came as a surprise to geologists meeting in London today Stuart Haszeldine, a professor of CCS at Edinburgh University, told MailOnline that carbon capture is proven and safe on a large-scale It …

Carbon capture may make economic sense
13 years, 8 months ago

Carbon capture may make economic sense

The Hindu  

Passing carbon dioxide through slag left over from steel-making turns the waste product into a strong material that can be used for construction. He believes that carbon capture and utilisation could be one of the best ways of combating climate change, by turning carbon dioxide from a waste gas into an integral part of industrial processes. In Australia, work is …

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