Browsing: CCS

The cost of retrofitting carbon capture plants to Australia's existing power stations could be 25% lower than previously thought, according to research using Victoria's Hazelwood power station as an example.

• Queensland Parliament passes CCS bill
  
• Wong defends Australian stance to G20, stresses key role of financing
  
• Government moves to dispel ETS inquiry confusion
  
• Economists warn of short-term vulnerability
  
• Sentencing database will create international interest, says Chief Justice

A Coalition Government would use policy measures the Rudd Government 'has largely ignored', along with renewable energy and carbon capture and storage projects, to reduce Australia's net CO2 emissions by an extra 150 million tonnes a year, Opposition Leader Malcolm Turnbull said on the weekend.

Mining union leader Tony Maher says Poznan's failure to agree that CCS projects should be able to generate carbon credits under the Kyoto Protocol is only a temporary setback. Meanwhile, AIGN chief Michael Hitchens defends Australia's performance at the talks and the decision not to release targets.

• Climate white paper briefings open for bookings
  
• Adelaide food recycling trial kicks off
  
• Climate change derails HR Nicholls' industrial relations agenda
  
• Gore sets out to bust 'clean coal' bubble

In some circumstances the Federal Government should accredit state and territory approval processes as satisfactory for EPBC Act purposes, recommends a draft Productivity Commission report on the upstream oil and gas sector released this afternoon.

Queensland Minister for Mines and Energy Geoff Wilson has introduced a bill into Parliament to regulate carbon capture and storage projects that sets out a process for storage site leaseholders to surrender closed sites back to the State, but leaves them liable for damages claims under common law.

• Ministers issue draft CCS guidelines
  
• Environment ministers set out three-year agenda
  
• Greens to push changes to infrastructure fund bills
  
• WWF sets out emissions reduction strategy for cement industry

• Pulp and paper industry warns of closures, outlines abatement options
  
• Déjà vu on waste: ministers' progress 'grossly' over-stated
  
• Climate Institute releases abatement modelling tool
  
• WA to provide water treatment for Esperance lead-affected families
  
• Australian Coal Association releases more than 40 CCS videos

The Rudd Government's landmark legislation to enable offshore storage of greenhouse gases has passed the Senate, with Coalition-instigated changes to liability provisions. Senators of all political stripes agreed the bill would be closely studied around the world.