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Is Carbon Capture Leaking Out Onto Green Pastures?

By Chris de Morsella on January 12, 2011 8 Comments Cameron Kerr, Canada, carbon capture, carbon dioxide, carbon sequestration, Cenovus, clean coal, CO2, Ecojustice Canada, global warming, greenhouse gas, Paul Lafleur, Petro-Find Geochem, Saskatchewan, Saskatchewan Ministry of Energy, Sierra Legal Defence Fund, tertiary oil recovery, Weyburn, Weyburn project

In a troubling development for proponents of geologic carbon sequestration a Saskatchewan farmer has just made public an independent study that links high levels of CO2 found in their farm’s soil to the thousands of tons of CO2 that is currently being pumped into deep oil bearing deposits under their land by Canadian Energy giant Cenovus.

CO2 Capture and Storage Gains a Growing Foothold

By Yale Environment 360 on March 11, 2010 1 Comment abandoned gas wells, abandoned oil wells, acid rain, Alstom, American Electric Power, amine scrubbers, ammonium bicarbonate, ammonium carbonate, Australia, Barendrecht, Beijing, capture and sequestration, carbon capture and storage, carbon dioxide, CCS, China, clean coal, Climate Change, CO2, coal, coal fired power plants, coal-burning, coal-fired electricity generation, David Biello, Department of Energy, depleted natural gas field, Duke Energy, Edwardsport, emissions, Erora Group, France, Futuregen, gasification group, General Electric, geologic formation, Germany, greenhouse gas, Henderson County, Huaneng Group, IGCC plant, IGCC technology, International Energy Agency, Jurancon, Ky, Lacq, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Mattoon, Mobile, Monte Atwell, Netherlands, New Mexico, nitrogen oxides, nuclear, Obama administration, Oklahoma, Peabody Energy, Philip Sporn Plant, Philippe Paelinck, Racine, Rajesh Pawar, Schwarze Pumpe, Scientific American, Scott Hill, Southern Company, Sporn, sulfur dioxide, Taylorsville, Tenaska, U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, waste gas, West Virginia, Yale Environment 360

The drive to extract and store CO2 from coal-fired power plants is gaining momentum, with the Obama administration backing the technology and the world’s first capture and sequestration project now operating in the U.S. Two questions loom: Will carbon capture and storage be affordable? And will it be safe? by David Biello, Editor of Scientific […]