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Carbon storage might not be so permanent

Okay, as far as the concept of carbon capture and storage goes,  the idea — technologically — is intriguing. What many readers of this blog don’t like is how the industry talks about this technology...

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CCS worth pursuing, but not to the exclusion of surer bets

My Clean Break column today takes a shot at the Canadian government for repeatedly touting carbon capture and sequestration as a panacea for the oil sands, while at the same time refusing to recognize...

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How to monitor leaks from underground carbon storage? Use bees, of course

I came across this press release from the U.S. National Energy Technology Laboratory that talks about a “novel” way to monitor whether carbon dioxide is leaking from underground storage sites used for...

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CCS, the cost, the risk, and the law of unintended consequences

When the Alberta government announced last week that it would be handing over $745 million to Shell Canada so it could move ahead with its Quest commercial-scale CCS project, and when the federal...

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Wow! Clean coal, CCS shunned in Copenhagen

Apparently the short list of clean energy technologies being considered for the climate development mechanism excludes carbon capture and sequestration, aka “clean coal” projects. The clean development...

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Is Weyburn site used for enhanced oil recovery leaking stored CO2?

There’s an interesting story bubbling up in Saskatchewan, literally.  A farmer that owns land above the Weyburn oilfield in Saskatchewan is claiming that the CO2 that’s being pumped into the field to...

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