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[ 15.10.2007 ]
CCS facts
Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) is considered as one of the main options to reduce global CO emissions. But what is CCS and how does it work? Read more from our fact sheets.
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whitehouse.gov

[ 11.03.2010 ]
Obama convenes key Senators to hammer out wish list for stalled US climate bill
NEW YORK – US President Obama this week huddled for the first time with Senators who are pushing the currently mothballed climate bill, meeting with a dozen crucial senators in a final surge to pass the legislation that is bound to be fraught with a number of compromised that will be less palatable to the environmental and international community.
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[ 23.02.2010 ]
‘Hybrid’ US climate legislation likely to back track on some environmental promise to throw big bones to industry
NEW YORK – For weeks following Predident Barack Obama’s State of the Union address, in which he more or less put at arms length or overturned some of the brighter climate promises he had made only a year before, his administration is spreading itself thin to come up with climate and energy legislation that will pass the Senate.
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www.bundesregierung.de

[ 03.02.2010 ]
Landmark EU decision to finance CCS
Tuesday, an overwhelming majority of Member States finally endorsed a European Commission Decision setting out the procedures and criteria for selecting the large-scale projects for CO2 capture and storage (CCS).
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NEWS
[ 28.06.2009 ]
Czech political parties think big – eliminate the Greens

PRAGUE – After the June’s European elections, which sent representatives from only four political parties to the new European parliament, early national elections are on the way in the Czech Republic. Will the big players eliminate the liberal-oriented Green party from the political limelight?

[ 28.06.2009 ]
Shell to build CCS installation in Kędzierzyn, Poland?

KEDZIERZYN, Poland – A source close to a transaction a concerning carbon capture and storage (CCS) installation in Kędzierzyn in Southern Poland revealed that Shell was the most serious candidate to build the equipment. However Krzysztof Jałosiński, president of Zakłady Azotowe Kędzierzyn (ZAK’) one the country’s largest chemical producers, told the newspaper "Rzeczpospolita" that there are several candidates, Shell and GE (General Electric) among them.

[ 02.06.2009 ]
CCS on a coal-fired power plant opens in the UK

BRUSSELS – The first CO2 capture and storage (CCS) test-plant in the United Kingdom opened at a coal-fired power plant on May 29th. The small-scale facility cleansing 1000 cubic metres per hour was put into operation at Longannet power station in Scotland by Aker Clean Carbon and ScottishPower, and is an important step forward to carbon-free fossil fuel electricity generation.

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BLOGS
Posted 17.06.2009 in Jonathan Temple's Blog by Jonathan Temple

Washington View: CCS gets a big second chance, while US climate bill progresses amid dim prognoses for Copehagen

WASHINGTON – The Administration of US President Barack Obama has revived financial support canceled by the Bush administration for FutureGen, the United States’ first coal burning plant with carbon capture and storage (CCS).

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REPORTS
[ 01.08.2005 CO2 capture and storage ] CO2 for Enhanced Oil Recovery on the Norwegian Shelf
Bellona’s case study shows technical possibilities and profitability of the CO2 capture for the enhanced oil recovery.
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[ 15.10.2007 CO2 capture and storage ] Carbon Dioxide Storage: Geological Security and Environmental Issues
Bellona has published the report "Carbon Dioxide Storage: Geological Security and Environmental Issues – Case Study on the Sleipner Gas field in Norway". The report documents how safe storage of CO2 can be performed by evaluating CO2 storage at the Sleipner field.
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