The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has issued a notice of intent to fund six carbon capture demonstration projects. Two are to be located at new or existing coal-fired generators, two at new or existing gas-fired facilities, and two at new or existing industrial facilities not proposed for electric generation.
A virtually unknown company has a $1.4 billion plan to extend the life of New Mexico’s largest coal-fired power plant by installing carbon capture. Critics say it’s likely to be a costly distraction from the state’s just transition. As New Mexico lawmakers were putting the finishing touches on landmark legislation Read more…
The failure of the Gorgon project to make the sort of impact it was projected to, with final numbers 50% below projections, raises very serious questions around plans to use Carbon Capture and Storage as a key tool to meet net zero norms. It forces us to consider that firms Read more…
A first-of-its-kind “green” Shell facility in Alberta is emitting more greenhouse gases than it’s capturing, throwing into question whether taxpayers should be funding it, a new report has found.
Charging customers $7,000 apiece for a long-shot industry experiment In making a pitch for a multi-billion-dollar ratepayer-funded bailout of the state’s coal industry, Wyoming legislators are avoiding the hard truth of market realities all around them and asking rank-and-file electric customers to foot the bill. Legislation now being considered by Read more…
Camille Erickson Over the past decade, Wyoming’s coal industry has taken a beating, but this year has proven particularly brutal. Layoffs have whipped through the state at a searing pace, outstripping previous busts and catapulting thousands of families into uncertainty. Since March, over 500 miners have lost their jobs in Read more…
ENERGY GIANT CHEVRON has failed to capture and store the carbon emissions it promised to at its Gorgon liquefied gas facility in Western Australia. “This admission from Chevron highlights once again that carbon capture and storage (CCS) in the fossil fuel sector is an expensive failure,” said the Climate Council’s Read more…