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CANBERRA, Aug 17 (Reuters) – Australia’s $50 billion ($41.3 billion) Gorgon liquefied natural gas project cleared another hurdle on Monday, when the national and Western Australian state government agreed to accept joint liability for storing carbon dioxide from the scheme.

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Posted on August 18, 2009 · in Australasia

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Canberra’s new suburbs are so devoid of trees and green spaces that most will struggle to store even one tonne of carbon a hectare by 2015, according to a new report.

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Posted on July 29, 2009 · in Australasia

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Published: Wednesday, June 3, 2009 4:14 AM EDT
Trucks that thump the ground and listen to the vibrations will help find places to store carbon dioxide underground in Pennsylvania where it won’t add to global warming.

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Posted on June 5, 2009 · in USA

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HOUSTON, June 2 (Reuters) – The CEO of Kinder Morgan Energy Partners LP said on Tuesday that the pipeline giant will not enter the market to sock away heat-trapping greenhouse gases in underground reservoirs unless the U.S. government settles who is legally liable if the gas leaks out.

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Posted on June 4, 2009 · in USA

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HARRISBURG — Depleted oil and gas wells, unmineable coal beds and salt caverns in northcentral and western Pennsylvania are likely candidates to store carbon dioxide emissions, a key step in developing clean coal technology, according to a new state report.

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Posted on May 12, 2009 · in USA

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(Source: The Times-Tribune)trackingBy Robert Swift, The Times-Tribune, Scranton, Pa.

May 10–HARRISBURG — Depleted oil and gas wells, unmineable coal beds and salt caverns in northcentral and western Pennsylvania are likely candidates to store carbon dioxide emissions, a key step in developing clean coal technology, according to a new state report.

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Posted on May 11, 2009 · in USA

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Three billion extra barrels of oil could be squeezed out of the North Sea using pioneering technology that is expected to create up to 10,000 jobs across Scotland, the Press and Journal can reveal.

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Posted on May 4, 2009 · in UK

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A study has revealed that up to 46,000 million tonnes of industrial carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, including those from power generation, can be stored beneath the Scottish area of the northern and central North Sea.

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Posted on May 4, 2009 · in UK

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How — EUPHEMISM ALERT! — “naive” are the nuclear and coal industries? We may soon find out.

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Posted on May 4, 2009 · in USA

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The U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory will be home to one of 46 new multi-million-dollar Energy Frontier Research Centers (EFRCs) announced Monday, April 27, by the White House in conjunction with a speech delivered by President Barack Obama at the annual meeting of the National Academy of Sciences outlining his plans for reinvigorating the country’s scientific research and education.

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Posted on May 3, 2009 · in USA

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THE inaugural head of Clean Coal Victoria believes carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology is a viable proposition that could prevent the loss of hundreds of jobs in the coal sector.

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Posted on April 27, 2009 · in Australasia

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The independent Committee for Environmental Impact Reporting (MER) says it has no objections to the underground storage of CO2 in Barendrecht. Shell Oil has plans to store CO2 from its refinery in Rotterdam in exhausted underground gas fields, beneath a residential area of the town. Shell has already been granted a subsidy by environment minister Jacqueline Cramer.

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Posted on April 25, 2009 · in Europe

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The Senate has endorsed a set of rules to govern carbon dioxide sequestration in Montana.

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Posted on April 25, 2009 · in Global

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G E Energy, a world leader in the development of advanced coal technology, today announced that it is joining an Australian government-supported initiative to facilitate the development and deployment of carbon capture and storage projects worldwide.

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Posted on April 20, 2009 · in Press Releases

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Members of the Enbridge-led, 38-member Alberta Saline Aquifer Project (ASAP) have completed Phase I of the three-phase project, and are ready to move on to Phase II: constructing a pilot project and actually injecting carbon dioxide into a saline aquifer.

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Posted on April 12, 2009 · in Press Releases