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 Stories About: carbon sequestration AND coal AND energy AND greenhouse-gas emissions
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CCS: Environmental whack-a-mole
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Sean Casten |
07 Jul 2008 |
Gristmill |
| Carbon capture and sequestration gets heralded as a great way to lower CO2 emissions and keep burning coal. Unfortuantely, it also kills the efficiency of the coal plant, meaning that every other environmental externality associated with coal-fired generation -- from mountaintop removal to power plant siting -- is exacerbated by CCS. Planet Ark puts it succinctly: The process called carbon capture and sequestration requires as much as 20 percent of the electricity ... |
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| Topics: carbon sequestration, coal, energy, greenhouse-gas emissions (all these topics) |
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Thought: Control
Waxman and Markey introduce bill to ban new dirty coal plants |
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11 Mar 2008 |
News |
| Posted at 10:09 AM on 11 Mar 2008 House Representatives Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) and Ed Markey (D-Mass.) have introduced the "Moratorium on Uncontrolled Power Plants Act of 2008," which would do pretty much what it sounds like: prevent new coal plants in the U.S. unless they're built with advanced pollution controls. Says Waxman, "The altemative is senseless -- locking in decades of additional global war ... |
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| Topics: carbon sequestration, climate, coal, Ed Markey, energy, greenhouse-gas emissions, legislation, news, politics, US House of Representatives (all these topics) |
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Carbon sequestration and the precautionary principle
A guest essay from Peter Montague raises questions about the rush to sequestration |
David Roberts |
12 Nov 2007 |
Gristmill |
| The following is a guest essay from Peter Montague, executive director of the Environmental Research Foundation. ----- In response to a relentless stream of bad news about global warming, a cluster of major industries has formed a loose partnership with big environmental groups, prestigious universities, philanthropic foundations, and the U.S. federal government -- all promoting a technical quick-fix for global warming called "carbon sequestration." ... |
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| Topics: carbon sequestration, climate, climate change mitigation, coal, energy, greenhouse-gas emissions (all these topics) |
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Why geosequestration is another distraction
Always keep the bait dangling just out of reach |
JMG |
18 Jun 2007 |
Gristmill |
| The July/August 2007 issue of World Watch magazine (produced by the Worldwatch Institute) includes a concise demolition of carbon geosequestration in the form of a letter to the editor by one Luc Gagnon, 'a senior advisor on climate change for Hydro-Quebec.' I'd quote the letter but the Worldwatch site doesn't have it online yet. So I went searching for more by Gagnon and found this short, powerful PDF making essentially the same point (in almost the same language). An intere ... |
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| Topics: carbon sequestration, coal, energy, greenhouse-gas emissions (all these topics) |
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Coal Position
Bush admin isn't putting money where its mouth is on 'clean coal' |
Amanda Griscom Little |
03 Dec 2004 |
Muckraker |
| Bush admin isn't putting money where its mouth is on "clean coal" By Amanda Griscom Little 03 Dec 2004 When pressed on climate change, the Bush administration is fond of citing "clean coal" technology as the wave of the energy future. Even some enviros are starting to grudgingly acknowledge the technology's potential for good. Coal: Can you dig it? Photo: NREL. But all Bush's talk doesn't appear to be translating into the funding needed to really get clean coal ... |
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| Topics: carbon sequestration, coal, energy, greenhouse-gas emissions, Muckraker, politics, tech (all these topics) |
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