UK: Huhne promises no coal without CCS
Chris Huhne has hit back at reports suggesting the government is watering down its commitment to phase out the UK's dirtiest power plants, insisting the government remains fully committed to banning new coal-fired power stations built without carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology. Writing in a letter to the Guardian in response to yesterday's front page story claiming that the UK's dirtiest coal plants have won a government reprieve, the energy and climate change secretary said the "idea that we are watering down our commitment is simply incorrect".
Click here for full storyA task force to President Barack Obama called Thursday for a strong government role to promote clean coal, potentially accepting liability over carbon storage sites for thousands of years to come.
Click here for full storyThe Greens want to completely replace Australia's reliance on coal with renewable energy sources such as wind and solar.
Greens Senator Christine Milne said yesterday: “Australia can harness our tremendous resources of the sun, wind, ocean, Earth and human ingenuity to replace our reliance on coal with 100 per cent renewable energy within decades."
Senator Milne said this could be achieved by 2030 with the right preparation and infrastructure
Click here for full storyA Liberal government would slash funding to clean up coal, sparking accusations the party doesn't care about climate change.
Click here for full storyProvince taking global lead on CCS technology
A lberta stands to reap the benefits of being a leader in carbon capture and storage technologies, which a renowned energy adviser group pegs as second only to energy efficiencies in reducing climate change.
Rising demand for electricity in developing nations is contributing to a steep increase in carbon emissions, a rise that could be addressed through low-carbon fuels combined with carbon capture and storage technologies, the International Energy Agency said in a report.
Click here for full storyFelix Resources' management team will take the helm at White Energy to turn it into a mid-tier coal producer and expand its clean coal technology.
Click here for full storyStephen Bartrop says underground coal gasification (UCG) can be considered as the often overlooked younger brother to coal seam gas.
Click here for full storyA looming natural gas glut is raising fears that investment in ''clean coal'', seen by some as the saviour of our coal and power industries, will be put on the back burner.
Click here for full storyThe UK's carbon capture and storage (CCS) sector will be able to sustain 100,000 jobs by 2030 and generate up to £6.5bn a year, the government claimed today (17 March). Unveiling a new strategy to encourage the growth of CCS, the energy and climate change secretary, Ed Miliband, said it represents a "massive industrial growth opportunity".
Click here for full storyWhen a respected scientific journal carries a peer-reviewed article branding the key technology behind “clean coal” as “profoundly non-feasible” , you’d expect governments and coal corporations to react in some fashion.
Click here for full storyAlcoa of Australia Limited and Loy Yang Power today announced new base-load electricity contracts to power Alcoa's aluminum smelter at Point Henry, Geelong, and the Portland aluminum smelter to 2036.
Click here for full storyHRL Technology a major Australian provider of consulting and engineering services to the power generation industry and one of Australia’s leading universities, Monash are seeking to jointly appoint a research leader of international repute to undertake R&D into low emissions brown coal technologies through the BCIA Fellowship Scheme.
Click here for full storyIt is often noted that one of the most significant challenges in addressing global climate change is reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions resulting from the use of coal.
Click here for full storyA new research organisation says a skills shortage is impeding the development of clean coal technology in Australia.
Click here for full storyIndia committing to reduce its carbon emissions by 20-25% by 2020, the government is considering participating in a carbon capture and storage initiative in Australia. A Cabinet note to this effect, initiated by the power ministry, is being circulated among relevant ministries.
Click here for full storyThe Queensland Resources Council expects world leaders to make an about-face on carbon capture technology, after a United Nations committee in Copenhagen refused to include it in its primary funding scheme for green energy projects.
Click here for full storyIn a blow to the deal struck between the Obama administration and India during pre-Copenhagen visits, in which the President arranged for the transfer of innovative new clean coal technologies; Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) might be removed from the list of technologies that industrial countries can invest in to reduce worldwide emissions to meet Kyoto Accord goals.
Click here for full storyHere’s something interesting that’s flown under the China-Clinton radar in Copenhagen: Clean coal seems to be getting the cold shoulder at the climate summit.
Click here for full storyThe clean-coal industry has been shut out of the global emissions trading scheme at the Copenhagen climate change talks, dealing a blow to the UK, US and Australia.
Click here for full storyAs the United Nations climate change summit in Copenhagen draws to a close today a major part of Australia’s so-called ‘clean coal’ carbon reduction future looks to have been dealt a financial blow.
Click here for full storyThe federal government has the opportunity to switch the nation's power to renewable energy but favours attempts to make "dirty coal clean", according to the Australian Academy of Science.
Click here for full storyThe coal industry's main vehicle to fund development of ''clean coal'' technologies spent just $35.2 million on three projects last financial year, less than a tenth of one per cent of last year's black coal export revenues of $52 billion.
Click here for full storyAustralia should not bank on being able to reduce its greenhouse emissions by storing carbon dioxide from coal-fired power plants, US climate advocate Al Gore has said.
Click here for full storyFor almost a century, Victoria's energy needs have been met by the state's plentiful supplies of cheap brown coal. Those reserves are in no danger of running out, and the tasks of mining them and generating electricity by burning what is mined sustain the communities of the Latrobe Valley.
Click here for full storyThey are largely silent, but they are out there - a collective of scientists and bureaucrats who, if they could, would like to give a clip behind the ears to the US Congress, circa 1987. It was then that the oxymoronic term ''clean coal'' was born, slipped into a bill as a catch-all for technologies that lowered emissions of sulphur dioxide and nitrogen oxide.
Click here for full storyVictoria will rely on fossil fuel for energy for decades, with leaked documents revealing the Brumby Government is set to take a multibillion-dollar gamble on ''clean coal''.
Click here for full storyVictoria's short-term answer to a transformed electricity sector will be increased investment in gas and renewable energy, according to Premier John Brumby. But he says carbon capture and storage - or ''clean coal'' - will be a ''crucial medium-term technology''.
Click here for full storyAccording to a report from the University of Queensland, continued use of coal and deployment of clean coal technologies is crucial for Australia’s energy and economic future. The report, commissioned by Peabody Energy, examines the social and economic contribution of Australia’s coal and outlines Australia’s leadership in advancing carbon technologies.
Click here for full storyThe vision of clean coal powering our future electricity has taken a blow, with new costings revealing the technology will not be viable for 20 years.
Click here for full storyClean coal technology will face extraordinary price hurdles over the next 10 years, a major stocktake of all the world's carbon capture and storage projects has found.
Click here for full storyAn unpublished government study has raised hopes that Australia will be able to develop commercially viable clean coal projects because prospective underground storage sites are close to power generation plants.
Click here for full storyThe former Queensland premier Peter Beattie said on Friday that algae could prove to be the solution to Queensland's clean coal dilemma and put Australia on course for a new future of alternative energy.
Click here for full storyPeople are looking for a cleaner energy source, one they can believe in, and enough to keep the lights on and power electric cars and desalination plants by 2050, when Australia's population will be 35 million.
Click here for full storyMore than £150m is to be spent on a power station in Hatfield, Doncaster. The new facility will use pioneering technology to cut emissions by burning coal without releasing carbon dioxide into the air.
Click here for full storyCook Inlet Region Inc. (CIRI) said it is planning a 100 MW power plant in Alaska that would transform coal into gas for electricity, making it one of the first underground coal gasification (UGC) projects in the United States. The project would require a new transmission pipeline that would cost about $100 million, according to company officials.
Click here for full storyCoal is the most abundant and economical fossil fuel in the world and over 6,400 million tonnes of coal were produced globally in 2008. More than 80% of the world’s coal reserves are located in the United States, China, India, Russia, Australia, and South Africa. Coal is primarily used for the generation of electricity, with smaller volumes used for industrial process heat and in steel production.
Click here for full storyThe Obama administration announced the winners of the first phase of "clean coal" dollars from the economic stimulus package, with the largest sums going to oil firms.
Click here for full storyThe government's claim to be a world leader in developing clean coal technology has been dented after officials warned privately that public spending constraints could force them to cut the £10bn programme. The Guardian has learned that Ed Miliband's energy and climate change department is under pressure from the Treasury to scale back its ambitions for new carbon capture and storage (CCS) coal plants.
Click here for full storyAny moves to give coal-fired electricity generators more money under an emissions trading scheme would be an "abominable policy innovation" the Government's former climate change adviser Ross Garnaut has warned.
Click here for full storyClive Palmer, Australia’s fifth- richest man, is planning a A$1.25 billion ($1.1 billion) power station using clean-coal technology at its Galilee project, the Australian newspaper said, citing a company announcement.
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