tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-51019089686166097252024-03-13T15:05:43.316-04:00Citizens Against CO2 SequestrationWe do NOT consider this to be "Green Technology" - it is an EXPERIMENT and WE are the Guinea Pigs! It is an experiment that risks our health, safety and environment - funded mostly by YOUR tax dollars - Let's not leave this EXPERIMENT for future generations to clean up!. This site was created for people all over world opposed to CO2 sequestration (CCS) Join the movement - email - StopExperimentalCO2Projects@yahoo.comUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger211125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5101908968616609725.post-74612771615635020302010-07-07T20:07:00.002-04:002010-07-07T20:07:36.696-04:00Quote about Truth<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: small; line-height: 19px;"><i>“During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act”</i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: small; line-height: 19px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: small; line-height: 19px;">_</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: small; line-height: 19px;"><b>George Orwell</b></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5101908968616609725.post-23045613919997195552010-07-07T19:52:00.002-04:002010-07-07T19:53:05.642-04:00High CO2 concentrations can turn fish into daredevils<h2 class="title" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.25em; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1em; margin-bottom: 0.4em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">High CO2 concentrations can turn fish into daredevils</h2><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://t1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:EydB4DxCJ5xIGM:http://tolweb.org/tree/ToLimages/Clownfish.300a.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="209" src="http://t1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:EydB4DxCJ5xIGM:http://tolweb.org/tree/ToLimages/Clownfish.300a.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="byline" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.625em; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1em; margin-bottom: 2.2em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="author">By <a href="http://arstechnica.com/author/casey-johnston/" style="color: #34323a; text-decoration: none;">Casey Johnston</a> </span>| <span class="posted" style="color: #9b9ea3;">Last updated <abbr class="timeago datetime" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px;" title="July 6, 2010 9:26 AM">a day ago </abbr></span></div><div class="body" id="" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.8125em; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.3077em;"><div style="margin-bottom: 1.3077em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">High carbon dioxide concentrations in the ocean may turn fish into reckless daredevils, according to a study published in </span><em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">PNAS</span></em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> this week. When scientists exposed two different species of fish larvae to elevated carbon dioxide levels, the fish began to ignore the smell of predators, multiplying their mortality rate up to nine times the current level. The oceans are predicted to have high enough concentrations to completely impair the fishes' predator detection as early as the end of this century.</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 1.3077em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><b><a href="http://arstechnica.com/science/news/2010/07/carbon-dioxide-makes-fish-swim-right-into-enemies-clutches.ars"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">More</span></a></b></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5101908968616609725.post-19946536717680352542010-07-07T19:48:00.000-04:002010-07-07T19:48:47.924-04:00Carbon sequestration too leaky to stop global warming<h2 class="title" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.25em; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1em; margin-bottom: 0.4em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">Source -</span> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"><a href="http://arstechnica.com/science/news/2010/07/carbon-sequestration-too-leaky-to-stop-global-warming.ars?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss">http://arstechnica.com/science/news/2010/07/carbon-sequestration-too-leaky-to-stop-global-warming.ars?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss</a> </span></h2><h2 class="title" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.25em; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1em; margin-bottom: 0.4em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><br />
</h2><h2 class="title" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.25em; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1em; margin-bottom: 0.4em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Carbon sequestration too leaky to stop global warming</h2><div class="byline" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.625em; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1em; margin-bottom: 2.2em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="author">By <a href="http://arstechnica.com/author/casey-johnston/" style="color: #34323a; text-decoration: none;">Casey Johnston</a> </span>| <span class="posted" style="color: #9b9ea3;">Last updated <abbr class="timeago datetime" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px;" title="July 6, 2010 7:30 PM">about 23 hours ago</abbr></span></div><div class="body" id="" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.8125em; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.3077em;"><div style="margin-bottom: 1.3077em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Carbon dioxide sequestration isn't a great global warming solution unless we develop less leaky equipment or commit to regular re-sequestering, according to a paper published in <i>Nature Geoscience</i>. If the containers used don't leak less than one percent every thousand years, atmospheric carbon would have to be monitored carefully and resequestered on a regular basis over tens of thousands of years in order to match the effects of reducing carbon emissions. Otherwise, sequestration would only slow the warming, not stop it.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 1.3077em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">To study the long-term effects of carbon sequestration, Dr. Gary Shaffer modeled several scenarios and methods of storing carbon, both underground and in the ocean, as well as various combinations of the two.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 1.3077em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">He noted that current methods for both types of sequestration have leakages rate that are too high, and would only lead to a delayed warming of the atmosphere. According to his calculations, any method of sequestration would have to leak less than 1 percent of its volume every one thousand years in order to fully prevent global warming.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 1.3077em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://arstechnica.com/science/news/2010/07/carbon-sequestration-too-leaky-to-stop-global-warming.ars?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss">More</a></span></b></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5101908968616609725.post-88948235595598456192010-07-07T19:43:00.000-04:002010-07-07T19:43:44.886-04:00Technical Announcement: New Method to Gauge Nation’s CO2 Storage Potential Released: 7/6/2010<div style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">A new methodology to assess the nation's potential to store carbon dioxide (CO<sub>2</sub>) is available.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">The U.S. Geological Survey will commence a national assessment of CO<sub>2</sub> storage potential now that its assessment methodology is complete. This research can be used to plan for the long-term storage of CO<sub>2</sub> to help lessen the impacts of climate change.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">“The estimation of domestic or global CO<sub>2</sub> storage resource in geologic formations is challenging,” said USGS Energy Resources Program Coordinator Brenda Pierce. “This methodology utilizes innovative calculation tools with robust geologic interpretation and allows for an assessment that can characterize the storage potential in a uniform manner across the United States.”</div><div style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">The new methodology identifies a means to assess the mass of CO<sub>2</sub> that can be retained within the pore space in underground rocks. The process of injecting liquid CO<sub>2</sub> into subsurface rocks is known as geologic carbon sequestration.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.usgs.gov/newsroom/article.asp?ID=2541">Read the entire article here</a> </div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5101908968616609725.post-24735578208474910822010-07-07T08:16:00.000-04:002010-07-07T08:16:35.017-04:00Stop PurGen Coal Plant Needs YOUR Help <a href="http://www.stoppurgencoalplant.org/">www.stoppurgencoalplant.org</a><br />
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</div><div style="color: #181818; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;">For additional information call 609.656.7612 or e-mail <a href="mailto:info@stoppurgencoalplant.org" style="color: #eb7e42; text-decoration: none;">info@stoppurgencoalplant.org</a> </span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5101908968616609725.post-27496295508202842242010-07-07T08:06:00.000-04:002010-07-07T08:06:28.833-04:00New Research From Niels Bohr InstituteADenother new piece of research coming out of <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1278477773_4" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent; border-bottom: 2px dotted rgb(54, 99, 136); cursor: pointer;">Denmark</span>, this time from the most respected <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1278477773_5" style="border-bottom: 2px dotted rgb(54, 99, 136); cursor: pointer;">Niels Bohr Institute</span>, by professor Gary Shaffer.<br />
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<a href="http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/06/100627155110.htm" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1278477773_8">http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/06/100627155110.htm</span></a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5101908968616609725.post-54626559093626787002010-07-07T01:19:00.001-04:002010-07-07T19:36:47.779-04:00NEW REPORT: STORING CO2 UNDERGROUND WILL ADD TO CO2 IN THE ATMOSPHERE<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10pt;">The brief report provides new analysis of why carbon capture and storage is a false climate solution that can’t deliver the emissions reductions its industry and government backers worldwide are claiming. </span><br />
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10pt;">The report can be downloaded via this link: </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10pt;"><b><a href="http://kortlink.dk/noah/7tk8" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1278477773_6">http://ccs-info.org/,</span> </a></b>which is the </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10pt;">NOAH Friends of the Earth Denmark </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10pt;">website dedicated to CCS solely.</span><br />
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<div class="documentDescription"><span class="" id="parent-fieldname-description"> NOAH / Friends of the Earth Denmark </span> </div>NOAH is a grassroots organization founded in 1969. We became a member of FoE in 1988.<br />
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They publish a quarterly magazine and 2-3 books in Danish each year. Their main national campaigns concern transportation, dioxins and biotechnology.<br />
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They are participating in the following FoE campaigns: "European campaign to halt GM pollution" and "New Local Partners for Sustainability". They have and are, still working on the Sustainable Europe and Environmental Space concepts.<br />
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<span lang="EN-GB">The technology known as 'Carbon Capture and Storage' (CCS) cannot deliver the reductions in CO2 emissions that the proponents of CCS are claiming, according to a report published today by NOAH/ Friends of the Earth Denmark.[1]</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">If CCS is chosen as a major strategy to mitigate <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1278477773_10" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border-bottom-color: rgb(54, 99, 136); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 2px; cursor: pointer;">carbon emissions</span> from <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1278477773_11">coal power plants</span> and coal fuelled industries, nearly 90% of emissions expected between 2010 and 2050 from the large coal fuelled plants would reach the atmosphere anyway, according to the new report.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Palle Bendsen, spokesperson for NOAH / Friends of the Earth Denmark said, “When CCS technology is observed over time and across the sectors where it is planned to be applied – when we watch the whole film as opposed to the single snapshot of <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1278477773_12" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat repeat; cursor: pointer;">one power plant</span> or a single year in the far future – it is obvious that CCS cannot deliver. Institutions like the <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1278477773_13" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(54, 99, 136); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 2px; cursor: pointer;">International Energy Agency</span> and IPCC must take into consideration the whole picture and review their assessment of this dubious technology”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">The available global carbon budget is so small that global emissions must peak before 2015 if we want to avoid <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1278477773_14" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(54, 99, 136); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 2px; cursor: pointer;">catastrophic climate change</span>. That is a clear message from recent scientific studies. From 2015 onward, emissions must decline rapidly. Any mitigation tool must be seen from this perspective. However, carbon capture and storage cannot fit into such a scenario because it is impossible to deploy early enough. On top of that, CCS will be ineffective and extremely costly. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Countries like China, the US, Germany, Spain, Australia and South Africa, among others, plan to use CCS to try to mitigate the contribution of fossil fuel </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fossil_fuel" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-GB"></span></a><span lang="EN-GB">emissions to <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1278477773_15" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(54, 99, 136); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 2px; cursor: pointer;">global warming</span></span><span lang="EN-GB">. EU has set large sums aside to finance 12 demonstration plants over the next 10 years. The climate law proposed in the US has similar provisions for CCS.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Palle Bendsen said: “Financing CCS is doomed to be a huge misuse of public funds. Our report shows why. EU and governments should direct their subsidies exclusively to energy conservation, energy efficiency and renewables, as well as finance development of <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1278477773_16" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat repeat; cursor: pointer;">sustainable energy supply</span> systems in developing countries. That’s the way to secure decreasing emissions.” </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">“CCS will lock in coal. Though far from being commercially ready, CCS is being used as an excuse to continue to build <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1278477773_17">coal power plants</span> that are 'CCS-ready.' But such plants will be preserved unchanged for many years to come. ‘CCS-ready’ is a meaningless term,” he added.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">“It is obvious that CCS is competing with renewables for R&D resources and capital, thus preventing the rapid development of <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1278477773_18">sustainable energy supply</span> systems.. What we need is a fossil free future. We must reduce energy demands in rich countries with high emissions, and we must increase <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1278477773_19" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(54, 99, 136); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 2px; cursor: pointer;">energy efficiency</span>.” Palle Bendsen added.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">CCS is often called a “bridging technology,” connecting a dirty fossil fuel present with a bright green future. This is a false picture. It will take a very long time before CCS would be able to deliver any significant reductions. <br />
CCS is a technology to keep the <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1278477773_20">fossil fuel industries</span> in business with large public subsidies.</span></div><h3 style="margin-left: 0in; text-indent: 0in;"><u><span lang="EN-GB"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Main findings of the report:</span></span></u></h3><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Symbol;"></span><span lang="EN-GB">More than 350 billion tonnes CO2 will be emitted from coal plants to the atmosphere despite a fast deployment of CCS in a scenario with CO2-emissions decreasing to 50% by 2050. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Symbol;"> </span><span lang="EN-GB">Emitting 350 billion tonnes of CO2 will make demand on 90% of the remaining budget for CO2 from all fossil fuels 2010-2050. (Coal represents only 42% of emissions from all fossil fuels). </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Symbol;"></span><span lang="EN-GB">Only 46 billion tonnes of CO2 or 11% of CO2 emissions will be avoided between 2010 and 2050. Until 2030 only 7 billion tonnes of CO2 will be avoided despite a fast deployment of CCS.</span><br />
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Palle Bendsen, climate spokesperson for NOAH / Friends of the Earth Denmark, </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">+45 98 14 76 95, palle(at)<a href="http://noah.dk/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1278477773_21">noah.dk</span></a> <br />
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Kim Ejlertsen, climate spokesperson for NOAH / Friends of the Earth Denmark, </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">+45 57 52 75 92, kim(at)<a href="http://noah.dk/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">noah.dk</a> <br />
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</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">NOAH/Friends of the Earth Denmark’s website exclusively dealing with CCS: </span><a href="http://ccs-info.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-GB">http://ccs-info.org</span></a><span lang="EN-GB"> (in English)</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-GB">NOTES:</span></b></div><span lang="EN-GB">[1] The report by NOAH/ Friends of the Earth Denmark, “An assessment of cumulative CO2 reductions from carbon capture and storage on coal fuelled plants in a carbon constrained world,” is available at <b><a href="http://kortlink.dk/noah/7tk8" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1278477773_22">http://ccs-info.org/</span></a></b></span> <br />
<div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Alternative scenario without CCS:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">"Europe’s Share of the <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1278477773_23" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border-bottom-color: rgb(54, 99, 136); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 2px; cursor: pointer;">Climate Challenge</span>: Domestic Actions and International Obligations to Protect the Planet"<br />
A study prepared by <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1278477773_24" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border-bottom-color: rgb(54, 99, 136); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 2px; cursor: pointer;">Stockholm Environment Institute</span> in partnership with Friends of the Earth Europe showed that emission reductions of at least 40% below 1990 levels within Europe by 2020, and cuts of 90% by 2050, are possible without CCS, nuclear, agrofuels and offsetting. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> <a href="http://www.sei-international.org/climateshareeurope" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-GB">www.sei-international.org/climateshareeurope</span></a></span> </div><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span lang="EN-GB"></span></span> <br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Apart from this the downsides of carbon capture and storage technologies are many: </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-left: 17.85pt; margin-right: 0in;"><span lang="EN-GB">a. </span><span lang="EN-GB">CCS will not only mean a prolongation but even entail an increase in the use of coal of 25-40%, which in itself is linked with serious negative social, health and environmental impacts. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-left: 17.85pt; margin-right: 0in;"><span lang="EN-GB">b. </span><span lang="EN-GB">CCS applied worldwide would according to IEA require infrastructure for transport (pipelines and ships) that is much larger than the present transport infrastructure for all commodities put together. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-left: 17.85pt; margin-right: 0in;"><span lang="EN-GB">c. </span><span lang="EN-GB">CCS will require much more water per produced kWh, thus competing for a vital resource already in great demand. This especially disqualifies CCS as a technology to be applied at inland facilities with freshwater cooling in countries like China, India, Spain, South Africa and the US. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-left: 17.85pt; margin-right: 0in;"><span lang="EN-GB">d. </span><span lang="EN-GB">CCS will be extremely expensive. The chain of costs of a coal-fired CCS plant involve: extraction and transport of approximately 40% more coal, construction of the CCS plant, capture of CO2, construction of transport infrastructure, transport of captured CO2, injection and storage of captured CO2, safeguarding storage, monitoring and control of storage facilities. This is why CCS will require large-scale public co-financing. There is no way it could be commercially viable to introduce CCS without this.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-left: 17.85pt; margin-right: 0in;"><span lang="EN-GB">e. </span><span lang="EN-GB">The environmental, social and health damages due to extraction of coal is most often incurred upon people not benefitting from the energy services that rely on coal as fuel. The same goes for the risks related to possible leakages from underground storage. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-left: 17.85pt; margin-right: 0in;"><span lang="EN-GB">f. </span><span lang="EN-GB">The long time liability concerning carbon storage is an issue that remains unsolved. According to the EU-directive on CCS, private operators can transfer liability to governments only 20 years after the storage site is sealed and closed. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-left: 17.85pt; margin-right: 0in;"><span lang="EN-GB">g. </span><span lang="EN-GB">CCS will not work well together with an <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1278477773_25" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat repeat; cursor: pointer;">energy supply system</span> with a large share of renewables. The costs of CCS would mean that the plants will be set to deliver base load at full steam, thus not working well with oscillating renewables like wind and solar. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-left: 17.85pt; margin-right: 0in;"><span lang="EN-GB">h. </span><span lang="EN-GB">Last but not least, as CCS competes with renewables for R&D resources and capital, CCS will in itself prevent the rapid development of sustainable energy supply systems for an energy efficient future with reduced energy demands.</span></div><span style="color: #1f497d;"></span> <br />
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</div><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10pt;"> </span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5101908968616609725.post-11508161204108480002010-05-26T01:53:00.003-04:002010-05-26T01:58:02.901-04:00MUST READ - Educate yourself about the risks involved with CO2 SequestrationI consider this a must read document - <br />
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<a href="http://www.epa.gov/climatechange/emissions/downloads/VEF-Technical_Document_072408.pdf">http://www.epa.gov/climatechange/emissions/downloads/VEF-Technical_Document_072408.pdf</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5101908968616609725.post-2971716213842058922010-05-26T01:50:00.000-04:002010-05-26T01:50:53.321-04:00NETL Report - Degradation of Wellbore Cement Due to CO2 InjectionThis NETL report may be found on the web -<a href="http://www.netl.doe.gov/publications/factsheets/rd/R%26D044.pdf">http://www.netl.doe.gov/publications/factsheets/rd/R%26D044.pdf</a><br />
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<blockquote><br />
Background<br />
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The majority of locations that are being considered for carbon dioxide (CO2) injection<br />
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and sequestration are typically found in areas that have a history of oil, natural gas,<br />
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and/or coalbed methane production. This is due to value-added opportunities such<br />
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as enhanced oil recovery (EOR), enhanced gas recovery (EGR), and enhanced coal<br />
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bed methane (ECBM) recovery. There also exists a greater knowledge base for saline<br />
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formations that lie either above or below oil and gas reservoirs due to well logging<br />
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and exploration activities. As a result of human activity, these formations are typically<br />
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punctured by a significant number of wells from both exploration and production.<br />
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No matter how impermeable an overlying caprock is, the sealing integrity may be<br />
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compromised by the presence of wells. Well bores thus represent the most likely route<br />
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for leakage of CO2 from geologic carbon sequestration.<br />
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Abandoned wells are typically sealed with cement plugs intended to block vertical<br />
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migration of fluids. In addition, active wells are usually lined with steel casing,<br />
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with cement filling the outer annulus (Note: in oilfield terminology, an annulus is a<br />
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ring-shaped hole which extends the length of the well bore) in order to prevent<br />
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leakage between the casing and formation rock. The permeability and integrity of<br />
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the cement will determine how effective it is in preventing leakage.<br />
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After CO2 is injected into a saline formation, it may continue </blockquote> <a href="http://www.netl.doe.gov/publications/factsheets/rd/R%26D044.pdf">MORE </a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5101908968616609725.post-48944339434636758792010-03-02T07:22:00.000-05:002010-03-02T07:22:43.771-05:00Stop PurGen Coal Plant - NJOur friends in NJ would like your support to stop the PurGen Coal Plant there.... please go to their web site to read more about their situation and the earthquakes that have happened in this area in the past.<br />
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Once again, if we were moving to alternative energy sources instead of catering to the coal industry CCS would not be an issue. Please support them. <br />
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<a href="http://stoppurgencoalplant.org/">Stop PureGen</a> <br />
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NJ Earthquake information <a href="http://stoppurgencoalplant.org/http:/stoppurgencoalplant.org/nj-earthquakes-could-shake-purgens-foundation">http:/stoppurgencoalplant.org/nj-earthquakes-could-shake-purgens-foundation</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5101908968616609725.post-59354638265838650452010-03-02T06:46:00.000-05:002010-03-02T06:46:12.799-05:00Figuring out where to put the carbon<a href="http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2010/carbon-sequestration-0111.html">Figuring out where to put the carbon</a>:<br />
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"Such estimates are complicated because there are several different mechanisms by which the CO2 can spread out from the point where it is released underground, and additional mechanisms that allow it to eventually become trapped. The spreading can occur by natural groundwater flows or by migration upward along a sloping aquifer, and the trapping can be caused by the CO2 dissolving in the water in deep aquifers, or by seeping through capillary action into cracks in the rock.<br />
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Juanes said his system accounts for all of the major known mechanisms by which carbon dioxide can get trapped in these underground formations. But for future research, he added, “The key uncertainty is the potential migration of CO2 vertically across geologic layers.” For instance, the pressure of the injected CO2 might produce faults and fractures in the rock, and this could create pathways to the surface and into the atmosphere. Juanes says his team is now working to better understand this potential mechanism."Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5101908968616609725.post-3772918000071095332010-03-02T05:33:00.001-05:002010-03-02T05:34:12.544-05:00Carbon Capture Viable for Indiana?<a href="http://www.indiana.edu/~spea/research/richards_ccs.shtml">Carbon Capture: Viable for Indiana?:</a><br />
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"The two Indiana University professors that helped organize the summit were John A. Rupp, assistant director for research with the Indiana Geological Survey, and Kenneth Richards, associate professor in the School of Public and Environmental Affairs. The summit's fndings, recommendations and presentations can be downloaded from <a href="http://www.in.gov/oed/2573.htm">http://www.in.gov/oed/2573.htm</a>."<br />
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"Some of the recommendations from the summit have begun to be implemented: the task force to assess state policy issues has been established, some technical challenges are being addressed by demonstration projects and the state is involved in investigations of several options for transportation of captured CO2. Two regional consortia that include the Indiana Geological Survey -- the Midwest Geological Sequestration Consortium and the Midwest Regional Carbon Sequestration Partnership -- are investigating the technical challenges in the region by conducting deep subsurface injection projects in or near Indiana to examine the feasibility of underground CO2 storage."<br />
<a href="http://www.indiana.edu/~spea/research/richards_ccs.shtml"><br />
Read the full article here</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5101908968616609725.post-68719381441658402282010-03-01T17:30:00.000-05:002010-03-01T17:30:50.125-05:00Great Indiana map - Geographic Information SystemsIndianaMap.org is the public source for map data in Indiana. It includes the information people need most in a format that is accessible to both the general public and expert geographic information systems (GIS) users. <br />
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The four layers that provide county-based framework data (including address points, street centerlines, land parcels, and governmental boundaries) have been updated. The layers were compiled from data maintained by various county agencies in Indiana, as part of the IndianaMap Data Sharing Initiative between Indiana Geographic Information Council (IGIC), Indiana Office of Technology (IOT), Indiana Geographic Information Office (GIO), Indiana Department of Homeland Security (IDHS), Indiana Geological Survey (IGS) and participating Indiana counties. The layers named "Address Points (IDHS)" and "Street Centerlines (IDHS)" can be found in the following folder: INFRASTRUCTURE > Roads. The layers named "Land Parcels (IDHS)" and "Government Boundaries (IDHS)" can be found in the following folder: DEMOGRAPHICS > Political & Other Boundaries.<br />
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This map and information comes from this web site - <a href="http://inmap.indiana.edu/index.html">http://inmap.indiana.edu/index.html</a><br />
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NOTE: All four layers are also NOW AVAILABLE FOR DOWNLOAD in ESRI Shapefile format.<br />
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NOTE: These new layers represent the fifth set of data harvested through the ongoing Data Sharing Initiative program by IDHS from local government sources on February 2, 2010. As a preliminary data set, these data have not been completely quality control checked for completeness, accuracy or content and are provided for program demonstration purposes only. These partial data are provided "as-is" and are not to be used for any official or business purpose. Be sure to read the metadata for each layer.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5101908968616609725.post-26384585191177261572010-03-01T17:25:00.000-05:002010-03-01T17:25:45.122-05:00Indiana Petroleum Database Management System (PDMS)<blockquote>From the web site <a href="http://igs.indiana.edu/pdms/index.cfm">http://igs.indiana.edu/pdms/index.cfm</a></blockquote><blockquote>The Petroleum Database Management System (PDMS) is a web application designed to distribute petroleum-related information from the Indiana Geological Survey (IGS). The database contains information on more than 70,000 petroleum-related wells drilled in Indiana. The data include information on well locations, completion zones, logs, operators, lease names, tests, hydrocarbon shows, samples, cores, geologic formations and tops, and much more. The PDMS is built around three modules: 1) the Well Record Tables; 2) the Map Viewer, which together with the Well Record Tables, provide two interfaces for viewing petroleum well information; and 3) the Fields and Production summaries, which summarize oil, gas, and gas storage fields, and historical oil production.</blockquote><br />
You can check the various boxes to look at different data... very cool... Ohio doesn't have this.<br />
<a href="http://igs.indiana.edu/arcims/pdmsims/pdmsFlash_new.cfm">http://igs.indiana.edu/arcims/pdmsims/pdmsFlash_new.cfm</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5101908968616609725.post-39450776403286909882010-03-01T06:41:00.003-05:002010-03-01T06:58:01.468-05:00Indiana CCS Summit, Carbon Capture & Storage - Fall 2008<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_dDwXDYI66V8/S4uogIaXAKI/AAAAAAAAAeA/xzv_VKe10JI/s1600-h/Co2_chimney_image.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" kt="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_dDwXDYI66V8/S4uogIaXAKI/AAAAAAAAAeA/xzv_VKe10JI/s320/Co2_chimney_image.jpg" /></a></div>Here is the link to this report - <a href="http://www.in.gov/oed/files/ccs-summit-print.pdf"> http://www.in.gov/oed/files/ccs-summit-print.pdf</a><br />
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Another link you will want to review is the summit's fndings, recommendations and presentations - all of these can be downloaded from <a href="http://www.in.gov/oed/2573.htm">http://www.in.gov/oed/2573.htm</a><br />
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A quote from the report referenced above -<br />
<blockquote>"Some of the recommendations from the summit have begun to be implemented: the task force to assess state policy issues has been established, some technical challenges are being addressed by demonstration projects and the state is involved in investigations of several options for transportation of captured CO2. Two regional consortia that include the Indiana Geological Survey -- the Midwest Geological Sequestration Consortium and the Midwest Regional Carbon Sequestration Partnership -- are investigating the technical challenges in the region by conducting deep subsurface injection projects in or near Indiana to examine the feasibility of underground CO2 storage."</blockquote>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5101908968616609725.post-91853579349711816882010-02-28T23:17:00.000-05:002010-02-28T23:17:40.447-05:00First Look at Carbon Capture and Storage in a West Virginia Coal-Fired Power Plant [Slide Show]<a href="http://www.scientificamerican.com/slideshow.cfm?id=first-look-at-carbon-capture-and-storage">http://www.scientificamerican.com/slideshow.cfm?id=first-look-at-carbon-capture-and-storage</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5101908968616609725.post-6416643645873275172010-02-28T22:29:00.002-05:002010-02-28T22:52:46.672-05:00CO2 Capture and Storage Gains a Growing Foothold - Feb 2010<blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dDwXDYI66V8/S4s021MVSEI/AAAAAAAAAdo/GutAvFbo4QM/s1600-h/CCS+output.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="150" kt="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dDwXDYI66V8/S4s021MVSEI/AAAAAAAAAdo/GutAvFbo4QM/s200/CCS+output.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><a href="http://globe-net.com/articles/2010/february/22/co2-capture-and-storage-gains-a-growing-foothold.aspx?id=4446">From the web site -</a></blockquote><br />
<blockquote><a href="http://globe-net.com/articles/2010/february/22/co2-capture-and-storage-gains-a-growing-foothold.aspx?id=4446">http://globe-net.com/articles/2010/february/22/co2-capture-and-storage-gains-a-growing-foothold.aspx?id=4446</a></blockquote><br />
<blockquote>The Mountaineer plant in West Virginia is the first power plant in the world to capture and store underground a portion of its CO2 emissions. The Philip Sporn power plant is visible in the distance.But just beyond Sporn's waste ponds stands the steaming cooling tower of American Electric's Mountaineer Power Plant, which burns 12,000 tons of coal a day to produce steam in a single massive boiler and generate up to 1,300 megawatts of electricity. Roiling white water vapor billows out of its 100-story smokestack, a visible sign of the scrubbers and other technology that remove as much as 98 percent of the plant's sulfur dioxide emissions and 90 percent of its nitrogen oxides.</blockquote><br />
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<blockquote>And to top it off, since October, an oversized chemistry set employs baker's ammonia (ammonium carbonate) to strip more than 90 percent of the CO2 from a small portion of the Mountaineer plant's waste gas and turn it into ammonium bicarbonate. Heat and pressure in another part of the carbon-capture machine turn that back into baker's ammonia, delivering a nearly pure stream of CO2 gas that is compressed into a liquid and pumped into two wells that drop 1.5 miles beneath the earth. There, the captured CO2 is stored permanently between grains of rock.<br />
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Mountaineer's chilled ammonia unit collects about 1.5 percent of the plant's flue gas and runs it through a chemical process to capture more than 90 percent of the carbon dioxide.<br />
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If Sporn represents the dirty past of coal-fired electricity generation, Mountaineer is the future - the first power plant in the world to both capture and store underground any part of its CO2 emissions.<br />
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At this point, Mountaineer stores less than 2 percent of the more than 500,000 metric tons of CO2 pumped out each month by the power plant, which generates enough electricity for 1 million American homes</blockquote>.<br />
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<a href="http://globe-net.com/articles/2010/february/22/co2-capture-and-storage-gains-a-growing-foothold.aspx?id=4446">Read the full article here</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5101908968616609725.post-86253158388056412532010-02-28T09:04:00.000-05:002010-02-28T09:04:02.616-05:00Call to Action - Join the Fight Against CO2 Sequestration in Randolph County, Indiana<b>Join the fight against CO2 Sequestration in Randolph County on Tuesday, March 2nd.</b><br />
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The open forum is at 6:30 p.m. in the Community Room on Columbia Street in Union City, Indiana.<br />
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<b>Every voice matters.</b>Chad Spencehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14482519987970434653noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5101908968616609725.post-67608808072439161642010-02-28T09:02:00.001-05:002010-02-28T09:02:33.609-05:00Potential impacts of CCS to underground sources of drinking water<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_dDwXDYI66V8/S4p3Sh4RAxI/AAAAAAAAAdg/zuiT_NxT730/s1600-h/girldrinkingwater.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="133" kt="true" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_dDwXDYI66V8/S4p3Sh4RAxI/AAAAAAAAAdg/zuiT_NxT730/s200/girldrinkingwater.jpg" width="200" /></a></div>Water is our most precious resource - one we often take for granted. Much of the United States is predicted to have a water shortage.... we need to take great measures to protect it.<br />
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CO2 sequestration is also known as "CCS" or "GCS" - for geological carbon sequestration.<br />
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<blockquote>Risks to our drinking water - </blockquote>The following quotes come the article linked at the end of this posting.<br />
<blockquote>"There are several potential scenarios by which a USDW may be impacted by GCS activities. Potential pathways include upward migration, fractured cap rock, faults, trace contaminants included in the CO2 stream, a microannulus outside the final casing, and the mobilization of metals from native minerals."<br />
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"The success of GCS relies on the structural integrity of confining units, for trapping CO2 in underlying permeable formations. Injection of CO2 into the receiving aquifer has the potential to cause deformation, trigger seismicity, reactivate faults, and compromise seals in wells. Each of these processes could increase the risk of leakage jeopardizing containment and the protection of groundwater quality." </blockquote><blockquote>"Risk is typically defined as the product of the probability of occurrence of an event and the negative consequence of the event. There are concerns that there is limited likelihood data concerning the consequences of GCS, which might result in either over or underestimation of chances of occurrence. Water purveyors take pride in meeting their mandate to protect the public health by providing safe clean drinking water. <br />
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While the probability of a USDW being significantly impacted may be low, the negative consequences of any such incident have the potential to be very high. The proposed rule requires operators of GCS facilities to provide financial assurances adequate for corrective actions, plugging and abandonment of wells, post injection site care and closure, and emergency response for failed injection wells. The question of how to structure liability for long-term risks to USDWs associated with the geologic sequestration of CO2 has not yet been resolved."</blockquote><a href="http://www.carboncapturejournal.com/displaynews.php?NewsID=513&PHPSESSID=62alf2mss8i0puaqu2irrl1du7">Read the full article here</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5101908968616609725.post-68279898765041546742010-02-28T07:52:00.000-05:002010-02-28T07:52:09.517-05:00Shell CO2 stocking plans under fire in the Netherlands<span style="color: blue;">Our friends in the Netherlands are in the midst of a battle with Shell Oil to stop a CO2 project under their densely populated city - whenever a government and/or company want to do something that impacts the environment, the people living there should have a say.... they oppose it. We hope Shell respects the wishes of the people who live there - Barendrecht is their HOME.</span><br />
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A carbon capture and storage facility that is planned in the Netherlands faces harsh criticism and active protesting. <br />
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A plan by oil giant Shell to store 300,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide a year in a depleted gas reservoir beneath the Dutch city of Barendrecht has drawn the ire of residents and local officials who have vowed to thwart it. <br />
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"We are going to do everything to oppose this project," declared Barendrecht deputy mayor Simon Zuurbier, who voiced fears for the safety of the city's 50,000 inhabitants. <br />
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"We are taking legal action to get it cancelled and we'll approve none of the required permits." <br />
<a href="http://www.mnn.com/earth-matters/energy/stories/shell-co2-stocking-plans-under-fire">Read the full article here</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5101908968616609725.post-58920962414530787662010-02-28T07:27:00.000-05:002010-02-28T07:27:50.755-05:00Carbon dioxide capture and storage (CCS) in geological formations in INDIAI've included this article that is specific for INDIA because it does a nice job of explaining the process and has several links at the end.<br />
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<a href="http://cdm.unfccc.int/about/ccs/docs/CCS_geo.pdf">http://cdm.unfccc.int/about/ccs/docs/CCS_geo.pdf</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5101908968616609725.post-48423617483213847122010-02-28T07:08:00.004-05:002010-02-28T07:16:53.698-05:00Diagnostic Monitoring of Biogeochemical Interactions of a Shallow Aquifer in Response to a CO2 Leak<h2><span style="font-size: x-large;">A grant to watch -</span> </h2><h2>http://cfpub.epa.gov/ncer_abstracts/index.cfm/fuseaction/display.abstractDetail/abstract/9053/report/0</h2><b>EPA Grant Number:</b> R834503<br />
<b>Title:</b> Diagnostic Monitoring of Biogeochemical Interactions of a Shallow Aquifer in Response to a CO2 Leak<br />
<strong>Institution:</strong> <a href="http://cfpub.epa.gov/ncer_abstracts/index.cfm/fuseaction/display.institutionInfo/institution/571"><b>Columbia University in the City of New York</b> </a><br />
<b>Project Period:</b> September 1, 2009 through August 31, 2012 <br />
<b>Project Amount:</b> $899,882 <br />
<b>RFA:</b> <a href="http://cfpub.epa.gov/ncer_abstracts/index.cfm/fuseaction/display.rfa/rfa_id/504">Integrated Design, Modeling, and Monitoring of Geologic Sequestration of Anthropogenic Carbon Dioxide to Safeguard Sources of Drinking Water (2009)</a> <br />
<b>Research Category:</b> <a href="http://cfpub.epa.gov/ncer_abstracts/index.cfm/fuseaction/display.researchCategory/rc_id/241">Drinking Water</a> <br />
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<h3><h3><blockquote><h3><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: small;"></span></h3></blockquote></h3>Objective:<br />
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">CO2 injection into deep geological formations capped by low permeability formations is one of the most promising alternatives for mitigation of anthropogenic climate change. Several deep pilot and demonstration projects are underway. However, the upward leakage of CO2 or mobilized brines through the cap rock could lead to vulnerability of shallow, overlying drinking water aquifers. Elevated levels of dissolved CO2 might affect microbial community dynamics and mobilize natural-radioisotopes, metals, and other non-potable elements and compounds. The proposed research will investigate a shallow potable water aquifer system in sand/clay sequences of the Newark Basin group using laboratory and in situ methods and test how it would respond to a high-level CO2 condition caused by a hypothetical leakage of CO2 from deep injection reservoirs. In particular, we will (1) determine metal release rates as a function of pCO2 and pH under laboratory and field conditions, (2) measure microbial community dynamics as a function of increased acidity and dissolved metal concentrations, (3) determine the role and persistence of microbial communities in the mobilization or immobilization of metallic elements, (4) measure in situ/ex situ mobilization and immobilization of metals under high-level CO2 conditions, (5) determine the extent to which leaked CO2 is geochemically trapped in the aquifer, and (6) develop diagnostic monitoring techniques to advance assessments of groundwater contamination risks and water quality deterioration due to a CO2 leakage event.<br />
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We will conduct a series of geochemical and microbiological laboratory experiments using rock and water samples extracted from a shallow aquifer. We will also add CO2 (pCO2 up to 5 bars) to local groundwater, re-inject it into the aquifer, and then sample and monitor the elevated-CO2 aquifer water in a series of in situ push-pull and forced-gradient experiments. <br />
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Results from these coupled laboratory and field experiments will greatly improve our understanding of the geochemical and microbiological reactions under low pH - high CO2 stress. We anticipate that this research will: (1) provide criteria for site selection for geological CO2 sequestration, (2) identify aquifers that would be least vulnerable to risks of CO2 leakage and subsequent contamination, and (3) provide a small number of diagnostic testing parameters that may be used in other potable aquifer systems associated with deep CO2 injection. <br />
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Supplemental Keywords:<br />
sequestration, pollution prevention, metals, pathogens, groundwater,<br />
</span></h3>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5101908968616609725.post-54463582230778185072010-02-28T07:00:00.000-05:002010-02-28T07:00:50.310-05:00More CO2 storage than previously thought for Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan and OhioDespite the fact that CCS is extremely expensive, risky, and hard to monitor and is very controversial --- the studies and push for CCS continues. It simpley makes no sense to me.....now we find a report from December 2009 that says we can store about 74% more! NO THANK YOU! <br />
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As a reminder - In Ohio, a large portion of the Mt Simon Sandstone sits below one of the largest fresh water aquifers in the world - our most precious resource. States are running out of water... <br />
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Much of the proposed CO2 to be used for CCS in the midwest comes from ethanol plants..... in our area we had a great harvest last year with the extra CO2 - if CCS is so "safe" why are there no plans to inject it under the cities that produce the bulk of it? <br />
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I do remember reading a study done in Ohio that said it would not happen in Columbus, Ohio because "it was too urban and densely populated".<br />
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The quote below is from the article that is linked below...<br />
<blockquote>The total storage capacity for the region, calculated, using efficiency factors of 0.01 and 0.04, is estimated to be 37.8 and 151.2 billion metric tons of CO2 respectively. This is approximately 74 percent higher than the values of 21.7 and 86.9 billion metric tons of CO2 estimated by the MRCSP for the capacity of the Mount Simon Sandstone in the states of Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, and Ohio.<br />
<blockquote> <a href="http://www.searchanddiscovery.net/documents/2009/80070medina/ndx_medina.pdf">Read the abstract here...</a></blockquote></blockquote>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5101908968616609725.post-12561477148824134802010-02-28T06:31:00.000-05:002010-02-28T06:31:01.213-05:00FROM EOR TO CCS: THE EVOLVING LEGAL AND REGULATORY FRAMEWORK FOR CARBON CAPTURE AND STORAGEBelow is the link to this article.... if you scroll down to page 10 you will find a map with CO2 pipelines as of 2008.<br />
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<a href="http://www.marstonlaw.com/index_files/From%20EOR%20to%20CCS.pdf">FROM EOR TO CCS: THE EVOLVING LEGAL AND REGULATORY FRAMEWORK FOR CARBON CAPTURE AND STORAGE</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5101908968616609725.post-56509644498622638872010-02-26T21:07:00.000-05:002010-02-26T21:07:08.429-05:00CCS World Acceptance<a href="http://www.co2captureandstorage.info/docs/Copenhagen/12.%20Peta%20Ashworth%20%5BCop.CCS%5D%2011-03-2009.pdf" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1267235958_0">http://www.co2captureandstorage.info/docs/Copenhagen/12.%20Peta%20Ashworth%20%5BCop.CCS%5D%2011-03-2009.pdf</span></a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com