Browsing: CCS

• James Hansen's open letter to Rudd: 'no more coal without sequestration'
  
• Sustainability committee to report to Rudd, as audit office looks at green procurement
  
• Rudd's sustainability A to W: summit panel members announced
  
• Majority of capital city residents take part in Earth Hour

• Federal oil spill bill goes before parliament
  
• Senate committee to investigate waste management, CDL
  
• WWF tells Victorian government CCS demonstration projects warrant special treatment

• Federal government kicks off trading consultations
  
  
  
• Work out now what a carbon price signal means for you, industry association warns
  
  
  
• Victoria sets out CCS legislative timetable
  
  
  
• Greens urge Rudd and Brumby to follow UK lead on housing and energy
  
  
  
• APEC puts corporate social responsibility on the agenda

'We all know coal-fired power stations will sequentially close," the head of the National Generators Forum, John Boshier, tells CE Daily. But if generators don't get help making that transition then Australia will face power interruptions and price volatility as a result of closures that occur too soon, he says. Yet delivering assistance in the right way won't be easy, Boshier says. (plus audio)

• Rudd and Clarke to cooperate on emissions trading
  
• Caltex hits out at world-first move on transport emissions
  
• A matter of principle; how Wong and Tanner will decide what climate programs to chop
  
• Clinton Climate Initiative to back Latrobe Valley carbon capture project?
  
• Queensland leads in GreenPower growth
  
• Environmental lawyers call for tougher rules on GHG reporting compliance
  
• Packaging covenant council names non-compliant firms
  
• Keep trading simple and don't have a price cap, says EC

Federal environment minister Peter Garrett is poised to boost Australia's ability to monitor the presence of dioxins, PCBs and other toxic chemicals in the environment and in human blood and breast milk.



And can coal-to-liquid projects, which have a huge greenhouse gas footprint, be a driver for carbon capture and storage? The International Energy Agency says they should be and Energy Minister Martin Ferguson thinks they have to be.



Plus more briefs.

Australia can affordably slash its emissions 60% below 1990 levels in just over 20 years, says a study released today by consultancy McKinsey & Company, but it will mean fitting two-thirds of coal-fired plants with carbon capture and storage technology by 2030. If that doesn't happen, costs would rise.



The study also says Kyoto's Clean Development Mechanism could make the abatement challenge massively cheaper – and concludes nuclear would make the task even less costly.

• NZ issues trading regulations
  
• Ferguson ponders FutureGen funding
  
• Travel program 'flawed' says Wong
  
• Auto industry review to look at climate change impacts
  
• Democrats bill proposes faster MRET push
  
• Greens challenge Rudd on fossil fuel subsidies

The head of the International Energy Agency told last week's major economies meeting in Hawaii a "CO2 incentive" of US$200 a tonne would be needed to deliver a 50% cut in emissions by 2050, the IEA revealed yesterday.



Meanwhile, the head of Australia's mining union, Tony Maher, has canvassed the creation of a new climate change pressure group and has urged resource companies to massively boost their spending on carbon capture and storage.

Treasury tells Rudd to put Australia 'on a clean energy footing' * Wong says we will set an interim target, as UN climate change chief urges major emitters to deploy climate change 'Marshall plan' * Victoria's Hazelwood power plant a cleaner fossil fuels case study as global energy agency suggests replacing or upgrading more than a third of the world's coal-fired capacity



* NSW environment group weighs in against NSW power industry privatisation * Program offers industry a 'low-risk' chance to test sustainability, Garrett says * 6-star green building flurry continues * Wood waste power plant proposed for WA