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August 25, 2009
The Belchatow power plant in Poland is bidding for upto €180M in EU assistance to build a CCS demonstration plant at the side of its new Alstom-supplied unit 13, as described in this Reuters video news package. The EU funding would be from the recently agreed Energy Recovery Plan’s €1.05 billion set-aside for CCS projects.
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Carbon capture and storage, Climate change, coal, English, environment, EU, Poland |
March 20, 2009
Coal industry can begin deploying CCS technology now: WCI chief Copenhagen (Platts)–18Mar2009–Carbon capture and storage technology has developed to the point where it can now deliver up to 55% of the emission reductions needed to fight global warming worldwide up to 2100, World Coal Institute CEO Milton Catelin said Wednesday on the sidelines of a… » read more
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Carbon capture and storage, CCS, Climate change, energy efficiency, Energy Supply, English, EU |
Remember the biofuels fairy tales which in the span of one year turned into one big nightmare when more scientists started to look a little deeper and the media started reporting about its connection to the new food crisis? It looks like the energy industry’s new “wunderkind”, carbon capture and storage, might follow the same… » read more
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Carbon capture and storage, Climate change, energy security, Energy technologies |
After EU policymakers’ disenchantment with biofuels (see EurActiv: MEPs seek reduced biofuel commitments), it is time to find the new “silver bullet” to tackle the climate and energy crisis. During two conferences held in Brussels this week, lobbyists for carbon capture and storage (CCS) pulled out all the stops to convince us that governments should… » read more
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Carbon capture and storage, coal, renewable energy, resource depletion, Sustainability |
May 6, 2008
A few pointers to some must-read reports or articles which I discovered in the last ten days: Nicholas Stern’s latest report “Key elements of a global deal on climate change“: not much different from his 2006 Stern review for the UK government but rings the alarm bell a bit harder as very little has really… » read more
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aviation, Biofuels, Carbon capture and storage, Energy and Climate Change, Stern report, Sustainability |
April 10, 2008
Jeremy Bentham and Jeroen Van de Veer presented Shell’s latest scenarios Scramble and Blueprints to Brussels policymakers on 7 April. Their visions for the future look pretty grim although they were not very upfront about it and their plea for big government hand-outs for carbon capture and storage raises a lot of questions. The scenarios… » read more
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Carbon capture and storage, coal, Energy and Climate Change, energy security |
March 19, 2008
In the Guardian, George Monbiot calls carbon capture and storage “another great green scam”. “Like biofuels and micro wind turbines, carbon capture and storage turns out to be another great green scam. It will come too late to prevent runaway climate change; the government has no intention of enforcing it; and even if it had,… » read more
One year after it presented its first climate/energy package, the European Commission published [press release] on Wednesday 23 January five further proposals dealing with the strengthening and extension of its greenhouse gas emissions trading scheme (ETS); the individual commitments of member states to reduce non-ETS-sector emissions by 2020; the support mechanisms to produce electricity from… » read more
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Carbon capture and storage, Energy and Climate Change, European Commission, European Union, Global Warming, renewable energy |
