Carbon Capture & Sequestration: In The News

Jefferson City -- The Missouri House has turned down City Utilities' request for legal liability limits on its carbon sequestration experiment at the Southwest Power Plant. The House on Wednesday voted 72-85 against an amendment to an environmental bill offered by Rep. Jim Viebrock to grant CU limited liabilities for potential accidents resulting from this technology to $2 million per site and $300,000 per individual. By early 2011, CU intends to inject food-grade carbon dioxide 2,000 feet under ground at the site of the existing coal-fired power plant

Article summaries AEO 2009 findings, CCS currently represents about a 3% increase in levelized cost compared to plants with no CCS

Debate explores whether there is such a thing as clean coal

one of the bills described would fund joint energy and climate change education programs as well as joint research and development of carbon capture programs

Article raises questions about the Administrations plan and timing for CCS.

Australia-based research employes seawater and animal waste to capture carbon dioxide

Nice review of the future limitiatons on China's coal use and CCS prospects--based on IEA's recent report.

The Pleasant Prairie carbon dioxide demonstration project has operated on a 24/7 basis for over 4600 hours, captured 88-90 percent of carbon dioxide emissions, and achieved 99-plus percent purity levels. (

includes credit for carbon capture and storage through acid gas injection

...with $2 billion to be spent building between two and four industrial-sized coal-fired power plants which use cleaner technology.

CCS is compared to a "bridge to nowhere"

E.ON is providing 6.9 million pounds ($10.46 million) to fund British research projects for CCS

CCS will be one of the eight Energy Innovation Hubs

Montana Governer signs law clarifying liability and pore space ownership for CCS.

"CCS is probably the largest source of potential carbon reduction for the next 30 years, and a way to deal with 30 to 40 percent of (global) emissions," said Kimberly Corley, Shell senior advisor for CO2 and environmental affairs.

Montana and Saskatchewan signed an agrement to store Canadian power plant CO2 in Montana

Saskatchewan, Montana expected to sign deal on a proposed $250 million project that would see carbon dioxide emitted from a coal-fired power plant in southern Saskatchewan piped to Montana where it would be stored underground.

Australian government moves to sell exploration rights on the seabed for underground storage of carbon emissions have been slowed by the complexity of framing regulations to govern the new system.

Article describes CCS as a technology that can ease the economic impact of a cap and trade on utilities

Article describes the newly funded LBNL-led efforts to continue scientific understanding of molecular level aspects of geologic storage.