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August 05, 2009
How real is clean coal, and why should enterprises care?CCS is promising enough that several companies and utilities around the world are in hot pursuit of it. Despite the humor of The Reality Coalition’s ad (created by famed movie directors the Cohen brothers), clean coal isn’t entirely imaginary–the technology is being researched, tested, and improved.
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August 04, 2009
ACCCE's Lucas: Energy Resources Are "Complimentary."The Radio Iowa reports that in a phone interview, Joe Lucas, the senior vice president for communications for ACCCE, said that "the key thing they are focusing on now as the US Senate begins working on the climate change bill is constructing a policy to reduce emissions while continuing to 'protect access to affordable reliable' energy and increase energy independence.
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August 02, 2009
Coal's Role In Virginia's Air Quality, Economy PraisedIn a letter to the editor of the Fredericksburg Free Lance-Star, Cathy Coffey, a communications director with the American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity, wrote that "Virginia's air quality became dramatically cleaner over the past decade due to the installation of modern emission-control technologies on coal-based power plants and reduced emissions from motor vehicles and other sources," and "further air quality gains will occur over the next decade as a result of Virginia's 2006 Clean Smoke Stacks Act and new EPA air quality regulations."
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July 31, 2009
Chu announces carbon sequestration funding; stresses importance of energy crops, ag residueIn its August edition, Biomass Magazine reports on Energy Secretary Steven Chu’s appearance in July at Bismarck State College’s National Energy Center for Excellence, where he “announce[d] a local power plant has been selected to receive up to $100 million in stimulus package funding to incorporate advanced carbon capture and sequestration technologies.”
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July 30, 2009
Clean Coal, Renewable Supporters Rally In MichiganThe Lansing State Journal reports on the clean energy rallies in Lansing, adding comments from ACCCE Midwest region spokesman Cullen West, who argued, "You can't take coal out of the mix and expect to fuel the economy." West noted that coal "provides 60 percent of Michigan's electricity." Some speakers at the rally called for a tripling of Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm's target for 10 percent of the state's electricity to come from "clean energy" by 2015, saying the target should be 30 percent. West said coal is becoming an increasingly clean technology: "Use of coal in this country has gone up threefold, and in the meantime emissions have gone down 70 percent per unit of energy produced."
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July 28, 2009
Opinion: Jamestown coal plant project is good investmentThe Jamestown Oxy-Coal Project, a proposed carbon dioxide capture and storage (CCS) demonstration project, is a component of a comprehensive energy policy that not only protects our environment but also provides for economic growth and prosperity. It's important for the federal and state governments to increase investments in CCS technology so that we can continue to pursue even lower emission profiles for coal-based pwoer plants and keep energy costs affordable for the American consumer.
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July 24, 2009
Senators Introduce CCS Legislation Addressing Legal, Financial FrameworkThe Wyoming Business Report reports that Sens. Mike Enzi (R-Wyo.) and Bob Casey (D-Penn) have introduced the Carbon Storage Stewardship Trust Fund Act of 2009 to help remove a major barrier to private investment in carbon capture and storage,” by creating “a program for managing the financial risk, or liability, of the long-term storage of CO2.”
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July 24, 2009
Time for a price collar on carbonSenate leaders intend to take up the narrowly passed House climate and energy measure soon, with the hope of having a bill signed into law before December’s international climate negotiations in Copenhagen. The goal is to make Americans face the societal costs of carbon emissions and oil use. But might the costs of limiting carbon emissions — especially during a recession — sink this legislation?
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July 22, 2009
Midwest’s Efforts To Boost CCS Development ExaminedThe Christian Science Monitor reports that the Midwest is prime for CCS “the Midwest has got the three things you want most -- deep saline aquifers to store CO2, coal for gasification, and big-city power demand.”
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July 21, 2009
Alstom CEO Discusses Future Of Coal, CCSIn an interview on E&E TV’s OnPoint, Pierre Gauthier, the US president and CEO of Alstom, said because coal is almost utilized worldwide, you will not be able to remove it. So the best thing to do is to be able to capture those emissions like we do today on the nitrous oxides and the sulfur oxides and we don't think twice about it. And if we go back 20 years ago everybody thought the cost would be unbearable for that. Maybe in 20 years we won't think twice about removing the CO2.” Gauthier said of his company’s CCS projects, “We Energy has been a success. It's what we call a pilot project. … It has achieved over 90 percent capture of CO2. … We're still hoping that by 2015 we'll be able to offer commercial technologies to capture CO2.”
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