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Tiny Blue Arrow Presentations from the recent CSLF meeting in Cape Town, South Africa, are now online on the Presentations page.

Tiny Blue Arrow Australia's CO2CRC has developed a video on its Otway Project for CO2 storage and the measurement and monitoring of stored CO2. The CO2CRC Otway Project is a CSLF recognized project. Click here to view the video.

Tiny Blue Arrow The report from 3rd G8-IEA-CSLF Workshop on Early Opportunities for Carbon Capture and Storage is now available. Click here to view.

Tiny Blue Arrow The Norwegian government has announced plans for two large-scale CCS projects. The Kaarstø project will be a full-scale CCS retrofit for a gas-fired power plant on the Western coast of Norway. The investment decision is planned for 2009. Click here to learn more. The Mongstad project will be a full-scale CCS plant for a combined heat and power (CHP) plant to be developed in two stages with completion scheduled for 2014. Click here to learn more.

Tiny Blue Arrow The booklet Geologic Storage of Carbon Dioxide - Staying Safely Underground has been published by the IEA Working Party on Fossil Fuels and the IEA Greenhouse Gas R&D Programme. Click here to download.

Tiny Blue Arrow The CSLF and IEA co-sponsored a workshop on short-term opportunities for CCS in Calgary, Canada, November 27-28, 2007. Read the press release.

Tiny Blue Arrow On November 19, 2007, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown announced a competition to build one of the world's first carbon capture and storage projects along with an expansion of renewable energy resources. Click here to read more.

Tiny Blue Arrow The Dutch Minister of Economic Affairs has committed €10 million for each of three pilot projects designed to expand knowledge about capturing and storing CO2. The zero emission Drachten project will capture and pump CO2 from gas-fired electricity generation to enhance gas recovery. The Cryogenic CO2 capture project will apply the principle of cryogenics to freeze CO2. The third project involves testing CO2 capture through coal gasification. Click here to learn more.

Tiny Blue Arrow The United Kingdom's Department of Business Enterprise and Regulatory Reform issued a news release on October 9th 2007 announcing a significant refinement of the design specifications for the UK’s first Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) plant. The UK is committed to backing the construction for one of the world's first commercial-scale coal-fired CCS projects within 7 years.

Tiny Blue Arrow The China Coalbed Methane Technology/CO2 Sequestration Project has been completed and a final report is available on the Projects page.

Tiny Blue Arrow The CO2STORE project has been completed, and a link to its "Best Practices" manual is available on the Projects page.