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September 2, 2010 Carbon Capture and Sequestration $115 million plant in Texas to be world's first carbon capture project Examiner.com – Sept. 2 Construction will begin this fall on a $115 million project billed as the world’s first for-profit carbon capture plant, which will convert carbon dioxide emissions into usable, sellable baking soda. The Capitol-SkyMine project will be built at Capitol Aggregates Ltd.’s cement plant in San Antonio. Zachry Corp. of San Antonio owns Capitol Aggregates. Do we really need carbon capture and storage? Chemistry World – Sept. 2 The two sides of the CCS debate go head to head - should CCS be backed or sidelined? Nanaimo Estuary has strong potential for carbon storage Nanaimo News Bulletin – Sept. 2 In a report titled Blue Carbon – British Columbia, authored by Colin Campbell, science advisor for Sierra Club B.C., the Nanaimo Estuary is ranked in the top seven of 442 B.C. estuaries for effective sea burial of carbon because of its high concentration of eelgrass and salt marshes. Report: Tenaska plant costly, questionable Alton Telegraph – Sept. 2 The plant would use technology to convert coal into natural gas with near-zero emissions. Project developers are hoping to funnel carbon through a pipeline to the Gulf states, where it can be used to extract oil from wells. While the grand idea may work on paper, it still produces an incomplete picture of the project. Developers came to the $3.5 billion price tag without assessing the costs of carbon sequestration and the potential pipeline - significant gaps, Colgan said. Fuel-cell technology may increase CCS plant efficiencies The Engineer – Aug. 31 Plans to use hydrogen fuel cells to increase energy efficiency at carbon capture and storage (CCS) plants will be entered into a competition for government funding. DOE conducts risk assessment for carbon sequestration R & D Magazine – Sept. 2 The effectiveness of sequestration storage of CO2 depends greatly on storage permanence. A key goal for DOE’s carbon sequestration research program is at least 99% retention of CO2 in storage reservoirs over a 100-year time period. However, variability in field conditions greatly complicates quantitative predictions of leakage risk. Climate Change Financing said vital for world climate change deal Reuters – Sept. 2 A global fund to help poorer countries switch to green industrial technology is vital in any new international pact to battle global warming, Switzerland's top climate change negotiator said on Wednesday. Australia to address price on carbon UPI.com – Sept. 1 Australia's Green Party agreed Wednesday to support the Labor Party in return for the formation of a dedicated climate change committee charged with establishing a price on carbon. UN Carbon Offset Trades Near Record Premium to 2011 on Regulatory Review Bloomberg – Sept. 2 The premium of United Nations emissions offsets for this year to those for 2011 traded near a record as the regulator reviews the way it awards emission credits tied to hydrofluorocarbons, or HFCs. Carbon Trading Lurches Off Course New York Times – Sept. 1 Voluntary Emission Reductions, or VERs, generated by abatement projects verified by the government-sponsored Australian Greenhouse Office, had been introduced a few months earlier and initial business on the exchange was brisk. It set up a registry for Australian VER certificates and soon was also trading similar instruments from overseas. But this January, the A.C.X. discreetly halted business, and what had started like a lion went out like a lamb.
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