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BHP Billiton’s Boundary Dam carbon fudge
BHP Billiton plans to spruik its Boundary Dam CCS project in Canada as a ‘solution’ to climate change. But do these claims have any basis in reality?
Bob Burton

Sep 21, 2015

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CleanTech Bites

Mining industry launches “ludicrous” coal ad as Alan Jones takes aim
Ad wars: Mining lobby talks up “endless possibilities” of coal, including ability to “slash” emissions, while Alan Jones launches keep out campaign of his own.
Sophie Vorrath

Sep 7, 2015

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Owner of first “clean coal” plant in US faces bankruptcy over soaring CCS costs
Kemper CCS is two years behind schedule and $4.4 billion more expensive than the original estimate, and its owner is facing financial problems
Stephen Lacey

Aug 20, 2015

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FutureGen’s demise another blow to CCS
In another blow to CCS promoters, the US FutureGen 2.0 coal power project has collapsed after the Department of Energy withdrew funding for the plant.
Bob Burton

Feb 5, 2015

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Zero energy at zero cost: How to retrofit buildings in a week
The Netherlands has found a way to refurbish existing buildings to net zero energy, within a week, with a 30-year builders’ guarantee and no subsidies.
Karel Beckman

Sep 15, 2014

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Wind energy beats nuclear, CCS for global warming mitigation
The myth is that only nuclear can be scaled to sufficient capacity to reduce the impacts of global warming should be ignored.
Mike Barnard

Jul 30, 2014

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Carbon capture and storage enters the twilight zone
Glum title of IEA’s latest review into CCS is symptomatic of gloom enveloping even the most ardent supporters of the technology.
Bob Burton

Jun 26, 2014

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Can Germany survive the Energiewende?
Efforts to Sustain the Energiewende – an increasingly disordered effort to unshackle industrial society from the chains of fossil fuels – are looking frail.
Jeffrey Michel

Mar 31, 2014

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Australia, ‘hostage to climate change madness’? To say so is madness indeed
Tony Abbott still thinks climate change is ‘crap’, he’s just using his controversial business adviser Maurice Newman as a ventriloquist to say so.
Giles Parkinson

Jan 2, 2014

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Coal Summit’s pipe dream of carbon capture and storage
Down the road from COP19, Poland is hosting the International Coal Summit. Will they mention how ridiculous the idea of commercial-scale CCS is becoming?
Kevin Grandia

Nov 19, 2013

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Carbon capture and storage: One step forward, one step back
Survey shows why we shouldn’t expect large-scale deployment of carbon capture and storage pre-2030s – or see it as a solution to the CO2 problem.
Joe Romm

Oct 17, 2013

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Do sea urchins hold the key to affordable carbon capture?
UK researchers may have stumbled on a solution to the problems that have bedeviled carbon capture and storage – by studying sea urchins.
Jeff Spross

Feb 6, 2013

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