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Issue 162, 17 May 2012
UK News
- CCS commercialisation programme
- Seabed test mimics carbon dioxide release
- £100m turbine plan nears end as Drax eyes CCS success
International News
- Could solar thermal technology make CCS cost competitive
- Oxygen-separation membranes could aid in CO2 reduction
- Obama campaign adds 'clean coal' to website after GOP complaints
Issue 161, 10 May 2012
UK News
- Crunch time for green technology as sea-test starts
- Carbon Capture and Storage Cost Reduction Task Force appoints supremo
- CO2-EOR as a ‘soft start’ for UK CCS
- UK’s David Cameron sees North Sea as green energy hub
International News
- $271m for carbon storage areas
- Masdar completes CO2 capture project
- America has room to store 500 years of emissions
- World-class Coal Facility Advances with IDEM Proposed Permit
- Norway opens major facility to test carbon capture
- SA endorses carbon capture roadmap
- North American Carbon Storage Atlas Unveiled
- Company also requests binding CO2 emissions limit for gasification process
- Global CCS Institute to facilitate CCS knowledge sharing in Europe
- EU urges gas partner Russia to back carbon capture
- Alberta’s carbon capture efforts set back
Issue 160, 27 April 2012
UK News
- UK allocates up to £60m to support development of CCS in emerging markets
- CCS could be "stillborn" without investment boost
- Research highlights key challenges for the Government`s new CCS strategy
International News
- What can YOU learn from the Rotterdam CCS approach?
- Calif. Senate Panel Greenlights Carbon Capture Bill
- Carbon capture and storage system operating in Australia
- Leaders gather to discuss Saskatchewan's carbon capture future
- Queensland's Callide Power Plant Now Firing With Retrofitted CCS Technology, an Industrial Info News Alert
- Senate Panel Keeps Carbon Capture & Sequestration Bill Alive
- World Resources Institute launches new CCS regulatory matrix
- University Start-Up to Generate Power with Stored CO2
- CO2 capture and storage can help Ukraine ensure its independent energy future
- China leading global efforts on clean coal
Issue 159, 20 April 2012
UK News
- Firms could sell UK offshore fields to store carbon
- Carbon capture 'viable with long-term support'
- Carbon Capture and Storage - New research from UKERC shows tough road ahead to realise potential
- Students take control of four storey carbon capture pilot plant in the heart of a university campus
- A little TLC can help bring £1bn windfall
International News
- Business community gets update on major projects
- Qafac showcase on CO2 Recovery
- California’s Energy Future CCS report published
- Suzuki report slams Sask.
Issue 158, 13 April 2012
UK News
- ETI project to develop marine subsurface monitoring
- CCS Research Centre launched in the UK
- Deep sea expedition on impact of carbon
International News
- 'The Technology Does Exist'
- Carbon capture project inches closer to construction
- China moves forward with demonstration power plant as United Kingdom revives carbon-capture programme
- The US EPA to Regulate Carbon Emissions from New Power Plants
- South Korea - Sedimentary layer capable of holding 5.1 billion tonnes of CO2 found
Issue 157, 5 April 2012
UK News
- Two CCS projects already in DECC's £1bn competition
- New £13M UK Centre for CCS research to be established
- CCS competition launched as government sets out long term plans
- Biomass/CCS Plant could cut CO2 Emissions
International News
- Petronas and Total to study the development of high carbon dioxide gas field
- MOU signed between The Global CCS Institute and DCC-NDRC
- QNRF spends $24 million on carbon capture research
- Scientists meeting to set world’s first standard for carbon capture
- “The whole world” wants to see new Mongstad test centre
Issue 156, 30 March 2012
UK News
- Samsung to take a strategic 15 per cent stake in the Don Valley CCS project
- Green Alliance publish two reports
- CCC comments on Emissions Performance Standard (EPS) for gas-fired power generation
- Written Ministerial Statement from Edward Davey, Secretary of State for Energy and Climate
- Change - Update on Government Support for CCS
- New Center for Carbon Measurement to drive UK's low carbon economy
- EPSRC announces over £950M commitment to support science challenges of our times
Issue 155, 23 March 2012
UK News
- Petrofac, National Grid plan carbon capture plant
- DECC defends decision to delay gas CCS requirement until 2045
International News
- Industrial Demonstration of Post-Combustion Co2 Capture
- Government of Canada Invests in Carbon Capture and Storage Technology
- Test to store CO2 under sea to begin off Hokkaido
- SaskPower, Hitachi to develop carbon capture test facility
- Greenhouse gas can find a home underground
- Aker Solutions is extending and strengthening the company's long-term commitment to the treatment of CO2 from industrial sources by taking full ownership of Aker Clean Carbon
- ESA gives Mongstad support go-ahead
- Carbon capture could deal with energy-intensive mining industry’s challenge
Issue 154, 15 March 2012
UK News
- U.K. academics to research carbon capture
- Scotland pressures UK to deliver on natural gas-fired Peterhead CCS project
- UK corporations urge Osborne to support low-carbon economy in Budget
- UK to give 20 million pounds to cheaper carbon capture (Reuters)
- After years of delay, are we finally ready to bury carbon? (Channel 4 News)
- Peel rejects WWF call to scrap Hunterston plant following Eon's coal exit
- Charles Hendry on North England clean energy visit
International News
- Universities to share in grant windfall
- Carbon capture project gains environmental OK
- U.S. DOE offers funding for CO2 storage techologies
- MOUs signed with Netherlands on CCS, EOR technology
UK News
- Clean coal project would see 1,250 jobs at Drax
- E.ON to cease generation at Kent power station in March 2013
- Carbon capture is part of our energy future
- Total green electricity generation for Scotland
- Minister drops funding hint over CO2 pipeline for region’s industry
- All Scottish coal plants to use carbon capture by 2025
- 2Co, Progressive Energy Say Carbon-Capture Plants Pass EIB Test
- UK CCS plants clear European funding hurdle
- Oliver Letwin: 'Government must continue investing in green energy'
- MPs urge ministers to back North East in developing "clean coal"
- Charles Hendry’s speech to the Platts 6th Annual CCS Conference
International News
- Saskatchewan Partners with Research Groups in the Netherlands
- The Arctic Adventures of Dioxy
UK News
- Charles Hendry’s speech to the Platts 6th Annual CCS Conference
International News
- DNV KEMA outlines global ambitions
- Underground CO2 storage put to the test: is it safe and effective?
- Waxman and Markey attempt to reignite US carbon tax debate
- National Mission on clean coal technologies on cards
- Accounting for Carbon Capture and Storage
- Carbon capture trial drilling begins
- Joint CCS Project Underway on the Canadian Prairie
UK News
- UK will support carbon capture and storage, says Davey
International News
- Test starts for carbon storage
- Carbon capture can curtail CO2 emissions, conference hears
- U.S. Budget seeks more funds for CCS
International News
- Clean coal project in Texas signs EPC contracts
- Duke Energy and China Huaneng Group Expand Cooperation to Develop Carbon Capture and Sequestration Technologies
- $100 million carbon capture investment for the LaTrobe Valley
UK News
- Ed Davey MP is new Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change
International News
- CCS awareness higher on Prairies than the rest of Canada
- Carbon capture to net €1bn of infrastructure funds
- Australia - Low-emission technology needs support from governments
UK News
- Expert trio join ‘clean coal’ project
- Humberside hopes rise for carbon capture and storage following new appointments
International News
- Navajo teams up with lab on tribal energy policy
- Metal Organic Frameworks Show Promise for Storage, Capture, and Separation Applications
- Luminant Makes $500,000 Contribution to University of Texas Carbon Management Program
UK News
- BOC joins Alstom, Drax on flagship CCS project
- Marine Planning in the East of England
- Clean coal plants and biomass to lead boom, Minister pledges
International News
- HTC Technology Integrated Into UK's Largest Coal Fired Power Plant CO2 Capture Project
- CPS Energy to buy 200 MW from Texas ‘clean coal’ project
- Abu Dhabi’s 75% government-owned National Energy Company TAQA has just created its first-ever division to specialize in investing in renewable energy
- Cleanest Coal Plant in the World Under Construction
- Carbon study captures funding
- Masdar eyes CDM for carbon capture project
UK News
- Scotland and Masdar agree renewable energy pact
- Westminster Debates Carbon Capture & Storage
- Clean coal funding is ‘withering on vine’ after £4bn EU shortfall
International News
- Green light for carbon capture enterprise
- Pakistan – United States : TharPak Consortium to invest $10 billion in Thar coal
- Growing Doubts in Europe on Future of Carbon Storage
- Australia's capital challenge and the role of gas - Draft Energy White Paper highlights
- CCS: Researchers See Offshore Texas As A Commercial Candidate
- Inclusion of Carbon Capture and Storage in the Clean Development Mechanism
International News
- Seoul opens first carbon capture research center
- Global CCS Institute updates large-scale projects through December 2011
- Market Research Predicts Clean Coal Technologies at $85 Billion by 2020
- Depleted Gas Reservoirs can double as Geologic Carbon Storage Sites
- Carbon dioxide stripper another project milestone
- Babcock & Wilcox gets DOE grant for carbon capture research
- Combining Bioenergy with CCS- Reporting and Accounting for Negative Emissions under UNFCC and the Kyoto Protocol
UK News
- Bioenergy industry is vital for UK carbon targets
International News
- FutureGen completes CCS test storage well in Illinois
- Air Liquide to participate in major U.S. Carbon Capture & Storage project
- IEAGHG International CCS Summer School
UK News
- Expert chair appointed to the Office of Carbon Capture and Storage
International News
- DNV and KEMA create a world-leading energy and sustainability company
- EU-funded clean coal project for thermal power sector
- FutureGen 2.0 site "suitable" for carbon storage
- Nordic cooperation in CO2 capture
- Major research programme for CO2-capture enters new stage with E.ON and EnBW
- Carbon capture project is on time and budget
- Environmental Defense Fund Releases Ten Recommendations For The First Offshore CCS Projects In Texas
- Enel Teams up on Carbon Capture in China
- EU commissioner calls for negotiation of new renewable energy targets
UK News
- Method puts carbon-capture and storage 'leaks' to test
- Environmental Organisations Announce CCS Network
International News
- European Commission’s Energy Roadmap 2050
- Norwegian subsea CO2 storage sites revealed
- Oil refining and CCS: bridging the gap through enhanced oil recovery
- Jacobs Receives Contract from Gassnova SF
- Report clears Cenovus carbon capture project
- Australian Draft Energy White Paper Released
- Carbon storage technology ramps up oil production, reduces carbon emissions
- Carbon capture a UAE win
- SaskPower needs time on CO2 proposal
- CCS included in UN-backed Clean Development Mechanism
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- Aligning CCS under the CDM
- Legal and regulatory developments related to carbon capture and storage between November 2010 – June 2011
- Mitigating Project Risks - Special Report to the Global CCS Institute
- Project Pioneer – Project Overview
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