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• Seismic testing starts for preferred CarbonNet CO2 storage site
  
• Senate to scrutinise decision-making on radioactive waste storage facility
  
• BP aviation business certified carbon neutral

The federal government will tomorrow introduce a bill that would allow the Clean Energy Finance Corporation to finance carbon capture and storage projects.

The federal and Victorian governments should clarify exactly what constitutes leakage from a site that is used to store CO2, according to HWL Ebsworth partner Dr Meredith Gibbs.

• Victoria awarded Federal carbon storage assessment permits
  
• Appointments hint at new direction for Sustainability Victoria
  
• Federal Environment Department staff cut by more than 16%

Environment Minister Greg Hunt has gazetted rules to end the 'Jobs and Competitiveness' program that gave free carbon units to large emitters.

• Election means companies should move by May on clean energy grants
  
• Regulatory impact statement imminent for EEO expansion
  
• EPBC ruling sought on CO2 storage research in Browse Basin

The Federal and Victorian governments today jointly committed $100 million to a CCS project that aims to exploit the Latrobe Valley's vast brown coal resources while sharply reducing emissions.

• Productivity Commission spells out carbon price umpire role
  
• Australia's fossil fuel taxes exceed subsidies by more than $3.5 billion
  
• Climate department details 'carbon floor price' options
  
• Power plant, CSIRO, CarbonNet share carbon capture funding
  
• New carbon and energy guides and resources

If the fossil fuel industry doesn't invest in CCS then its many critics will continue to demonise it, Energy Minister Martin Ferguson has told the Global Carbon Capture and Storage Institute, at today's launch of the institute's global CCS stocktake.

The Coalition won't succeed in dismantling the carbon price scheme, partly because the bills define permits as property, Assistant Climate Change Minister Mark Dreyfus said today, while also expressing concern at the high costs of emissions auditing.