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Publish date: August 13, 2010
Written by: Ilias Vazaios
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The funding money will be directed to universities and private companies to develop projects at 15 sites in 12 states with the goal of studying ‘various aspects of carbon capture and migration’ in different types of geologic formations. The aim is to examine CO2 storage in all potential geological settings so as to ‘predict what happens to the carbon dioxide while it’s stored’.
The announcement comes just a few days after the US Department of Energy decided to allocate $1 billion (€750 million) for the implementation of a large-scale CO2 capture and storage (CCS) project in Illinois.
Secretary Chu has expressed his strong confidence that these projects will ‘reduce greenhouse gas emissions, develop clean energy innovation and help produce jobs for Americans across the Nation’.
Read the announcement of the US Department of Energy here.
Recent attacks on Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant "mark the beginning of a new and gravely dangerous front of the war," the UN atomic agency's director general said last week.
After years of inaction, Germany is working on its Carbon Management Strategy to resolve how CCS can play a role in climate action in industry. At the end of February, the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action published first key points and a proposal to amend the law Kohlenstoffdioxid Speicherungsgesetz (KSpG). Bellona Deutschland, who was actively involved in the previous stakeholder dialogue submitted a statement in the association hearing.
In the midst of a global discussion on whether natural gas should be used as a transitional fuel and whether emissions from its extraction, production, transport and use are significantly less than those from other fossil fuels, Russia has developed ambitious plans to increase its own production of liquified natural gas (LNG) in the Arctic – a region with 75% of proven gas reserves in Russia – to raise its share in the international gas trade.
In this news digest, we monitor events that impact the environment in the Russian Arctic. Our main focus lies in identifying the factors that contribute to pollution risks and climate change.