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Norway abandons carbon capture plans

2013-09-20 20:10:47| BBC News | Business | UK Edition

The outgoing government in Norway buries much-vaunted plans to capture carbon dioxide and store it underground amid mounting costs and delays.

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Norway drops carbon capture plan had likened to "Moon landing"

2013-09-20 19:24:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Reuters: Norway's outgoing center-left government dropped plans on Friday for a costly large-scale project to capture carbon dioxide that it once compared in ambition to sending people to the Moon. The International Energy Agency says deployment of carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology is critical to reducing carbon emissions, but so far there is no full-scale commercial plant operating anywhere in the world. "The development of full-scale carbon dioxide capture at Mongstad is discontinued," Norway's...

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Gina McCarthy defends carbon capture for future plants

2013-09-19 04:20:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Politico: EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy defended the Obama administration's climate plan Wednesday as a necessary force to shift to a lower-carbon energy future -- but didn't dispute lawmakers' suggestions that it will place new burdens on coal. McCarthy and Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz declined to offer details about the proposed greenhouse gas standards for future power plants that EPA is scheduled to release this week. But the pair did nothing during Wednesday's House climate hearing to counter the...

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Australia: World's largest carbon capture begins even as Abbott tax repeal looms

2013-09-11 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Reuters: Prime minister-elect Tony Abbott has pledged to repeal the country's carbon tax to boost economic competitiveness, so it is ironic that Australia is about to host the world's most ambitious project for capturing carbon dioxide and storing it underground. Starting in 2014/15, Chevron will begin injecting 120 million tonnes of pressurised supercritical carbon dioxide 2.5 kilometres underground as part of its giant Gorgon LNG project. Raw gas from the Gorgon field contains about 14 per cent carbon...

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