Comments on: The EuroParliament’s Schwarzenegger Clause and CCS http://carbonnation.info/2008/10/13/carbon-capture-is-europes-niet-to-russian-gas/ Seeking Hope Amidst the Climate Conundrum Tue, 15 Nov 2011 00:23:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: pfairley http://carbonnation.info/2008/10/13/carbon-capture-is-europes-niet-to-russian-gas/#comment-448 Thu, 13 Nov 2008 07:52:55 +0000 http://carbonnation.wordpress.com/?p=244#comment-448 The Coffee House points out an intriguing development, namely that last week BP pulled out of a UK program to cofinance a carbon capture project at a coal-fired power plant. The significance is, however, still hard to read.

BP, for example, isn’t dropping CCS altogether. It already operates one of the world’s largest CCS sites (the In Salah project in Algeria) and, as Coffee House points out, is developing new CCS projects in California and Abu Dhabi.

The UK competition, meanwhile, still has three viable competitors.

]]> By: BP pulls out of ‘carbon capture’ power station competition. « The Coffee House http://carbonnation.info/2008/10/13/carbon-capture-is-europes-niet-to-russian-gas/#comment-447 Thu, 13 Nov 2008 07:16:12 +0000 http://carbonnation.wordpress.com/?p=244#comment-447 [...] Politicians around the world appear to be warming to the idea of carbon capture, banning new build coal fired power stations that don’t incorporate CCS into their plans. See here for useful summary. [...]

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