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• New Senate inquiry into CEFC support for carbon storage
  
• Aurizon won't seek NAIF funding at this stage
  
• Senate partially rejects illegal logging regulations

Carbon capture and storage projects involving Glencore, Shell and AGL are among the beneficiaries of $23 million in new grant funding announced today by the Federal Government.

• Climate resilience grants on offer
  
• WA Water warns of 'unprecedented climate change'
  
• CO2CRC seeks new chief to steer $100m budget spend

AGL has established a syndicate to explore a lower-cost process to capture CO2 from brown coal-fired power stations.

• 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

• Ferguson names first CCS Flagships project
  
• We'll redo modelling when we see compensation terms, says coal chief
  
• New vehicle emission controls to be phased in by 2018

A coal council report released by Energy Minister Martin Ferguson after a year's delay warns that a suite of CCS demonstration projects will cost up to $17 billion over the next decade, while the council is also calling for the Government to rethink project timelines and says 'CCS-ready' standards should be applied to large industrial sites and gas-fired plants.

Coal companies would be the big winners from carbon capture and storage but haven't provided anywhere near enough money to show the technology can work, Shadow Energy and Resources Minister Ian Macfarlane tells CE Daily.