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UKCCSC News 24 Sepember 2010
Hi Folks,
Internal UKCCSC items
Mark your diaries now! The next UKCCSC semi-annual meeting will be 5-6 April 2011 in Falmouth at the University of Exeter, Cornwall Campus. Given our stunning meeting location, we will have a “marine” theme. A draft agenda will be circulated before Christmas, but if you have any suggestions on speakers/topics please reply to this email by the end of October.
Our UKCCSC Winter School for early career researchers will be 9-10 February 2011 at Imperial College. Travel/accommodation will be supported, but spaces are limited. If you are interested in organising a technical session of roughly 3-4 speakers and thus guaranteeing your registration slot (wink wink, nudge nudge!), please reply to this email ASAP. Registration and further information will be sent shortly.
There were over 90 delegates at our UKCCSC semi-annual meeting at the University of Leeds last week. We had a very interesting agenda with industry and government speakers in addition to an array of presenters for FP7-funded CCS projects. Presentations and photos of the event will be posted online by the end of next week here
.Other Events
ZERO (Zero Energy Resource Organisation) has invited UKCCSC members to a seminar on the latest information about CCS in Germany. Check out the flier and more info here.
National and International News
“Obama CCS Task Force releases its report” National Resources Council (USA) Staff Blog
“The Task Force rightly identified the prime factor that is hindering CCS deployment right now: the lack of comprehensive climate legislation with a price and limits on carbon pollution.”
There is a link to the report itself.
2) The USA spending spree has gone on so long I was beginning to doubt if this really is new news, or just the old stuff recycled:
“DOE giving $575 million in carbon capture grants” Associated Press (Sept 7)
This is presumably the antidote to my doubts?
“All told … the department has invested more than $4 billion in carbon storage and capture, matched by more than $7 billion in private investments.”
3) The British Embassy, Washington, have a report about CCS. The science is basic, and is presumably aimed at business investors:
“Secure Our Energy Future: CCS”
4) “South Africa has its first atlas on the geological storage of carbon dioxide” News24 (9 Sept)
5) “France Injects $1.7B Into Renewables, Green Chemistry, Carbon Capture” Reuters (31 Aug)
“By the end of this year, ADEME [France's Environment and Energy Management Agency] will distribute ¤190 million, followed by ¤290 each of the following years through 2014. The government also expects to bring in ¤2 billion in private investments.”
6) In the UK: “DECC [Dept of Energy and Climate Change] publishes licensing plans for undersea carbon storage” businessGreen (27 Aug)
“Licensing of carbon storage activities will be in conjunction with The Crown Estate and follow largely the pattern set for offshore oil and gas exploration.”
It doesn’t apply to Scotland. The report has a link to the DECC report.
7) “ScottishPower sponsors UK industry-academia carbon capture and storage effort” Energy Efficiency News (15 Sept)
“The ScottishPower Academic Alliance (SPAA) will bring the expertise of Imperial College London and the University of Edinburgh to bear on technical innovation in the capture and offshore storage of CO2, …particularly in the area of skills.”
8) Lord Stern, of report fame, has been down-under.
“Countries That Spurn Climate Remedies Face Barriers on Trade, Stern Says” Bloomberg (1 Sept)
“He estimates the world needs to target an emissions level of two metric tons per capita compared with the current 20 ton average in developed economies such as Australia…”
9) The United Nations Industrial Development Organisation is working towards a CCS roadmap for industrial sources, next meeting is 24 September (sorry!) in the Netherlands.
10) Everything else is made in Taiwan these days, why not CCS?
“CPC Corp. to launch pilot project on geologic carbon storage” CAN English News (25 Aug)
“The project is expected to be concluded in late 2011, with the storage volume estimated at 50,000 tons to 100,000 tons”
11) CCS is official!
“Climate change and the vuvuzela leave mark on Oxford Dictionary of English”
“Even the most ardent sceptics will no longer be able to deny the existence of "carbon capture and storage"”
12) This month’s free holiday is to Berlin, for the 5th Annual Expperts 2010 (and no, that’s not a typo).
This includes on 29th September, a half day workshop entitled: Driving forwards CO2 storage strategies to advance CCS for emissions reduction.
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