Friday 17 April 2009

Hot air rising to the challenge of storage

Summaries - Australian Financial Review
Thursday 16/4/2009 Page: 12

Uncertainty surrounds plans for carbon capture and storage projects and solutions to the problem remain some way off, experts claim. The Rudd government's Global carbon capture and storage Institute meets today for the first time to discuss the issue but Peter Cook, chief executive of the Co-operative Research Centre for Greenhouse Gas Technologies, said the institute has not come up with any firm plans yet. Prime Minister Kevin Rudd held talks with Santos, the oil and gas explorer, over its carbon capture and storage plans last year. But those plans now appear to be on hold because of the collapse of oil prices and the Government's emissions trading scheme.

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