Browsing: CCS

• 'Coal miner dominance skewing the CCS debate', power industry source
  
• Macfarlane not on L-plates in shaping Coalition stance
  
• Tony Blair to the UN – collective action makes the carbon price plunge
  
• Gillard launches new climate group
  
• Carbon price will reduce payback times, energy consultancy says

• Ratings agency flags power station CPRS concerns
  
• Wong meets U.S. climate bill architects
  
• Victoria releases draft CCS regulations
  
• Advertisers issue voluntary environmental code
  
• Qfleet meets emissions target ahead of schedule
  
• Norway buys NZ forest carbon
  
• U.S. Senate takes evidence on containing scheme costs

• EBA to Rudd: 'back bio-CCS'
  
• Three sources of tension in global talks, Australian negotiator says
  
• Container deposit debate limps on
  
• Today's actions determine tomorrow's options, World Bank warns

• AGL wins renewables contract for Adelaide desal plant
  
• Garrett exempts oil spill fight from EPBC Act processes
  
• Four Corners looks at slow progress on CCS

• Victoria introduces bill to phase out renewables scheme
  
• We want federal CCS cash for these projects, Queensland says
  
• How to fix a planet – Royal Society examines geoengineering options

• 'Survey shows Kimberley no place for LNG processing'
  
• What would CCS cost now?
  
• Ai Group issues water conservation case studies

A revised climate change strategy issued today by the Queensland Government says new coal-fired power plants can be built in the state, but only if they are CCS-ready and use world's best practice technology.

• Governments take on Gorgon post-closure CCS liability
  
• Greens and independent MP join forces to push feed-in tariff
  
• Drop fixed decay rate for free permits, A3P says
  
• 'We need digitally aware infrastructure', urge Ai Group and IBM

The WA Government says it has imposed 'strong, new conditions' on the Gorgon Venture's proposed LNG plant, but it has watered down key EPA recommendations dealing with CO2 storage that the venture had unsuccessfully challenged.

WA Environment Minister Donna Faragher has rejected WWF's push for the multi-billion dollar Gorgon LNG plant to be built on the mainland instead of an island nature reserve, despite the WA EPA raising doubts about whether the mainland option is still too expensive.