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From EOR to CCS: The evolving legal and regulatory framework for carbon capture and storage

2008
Scholarly Work
Philip Marston, Patricia A Moore
This article addresses why the current legal framework will be largely adequate from a transaction and interim standpoint to allow progress from oil production operations to permanent underground storage.

The Potential for Terrestrial Carbon Sequestration in Minnesota

2008
Scientific Report
Minnesota Terrestrial Carbon Sequestration Initiative
This report assesses the potential of Minnesota lands to sequester carbon dioxide, including an analysis of existing and proposed state policies for their potential impact on carbon sequestration activities.

Climate Change and Carbon Sequestration: Assessing a Liability Regime for the Long-term Storage of Carbon Dioxide

2008
Scholarly Work
Alexandra B. Klass, Elizabeth J. Wilson
This article surveys the existing environmental law and tort law liability regimes that may cover potential harm from escaping or migrating C02 from CCS activities.

Carbon Capture and Storage Project Development: An Overview of Property Rights Acquisition, Permitting, and Operational Liability Issues

2008
Scholarly Work
Thomas A. Campbell, Robert A. James, Julie Hutchings
This article covers potential challenges and solutions for CCS on topics such as the acquisition of property rights; permitting at both the federal and the state levels; and identification, reduction and transfer of liabilities.

Sequestration, Science, and the Law: An Analysis of the Sequestration Component of the California and Northeastern States’ Plans to Curb Global Warming

2007
Scholarly Work
Elizabeth C. Brodeen
This comment describes the three major methods for carbon sequestration and examines the sequestration component of the initiatives in California and the northeastern states.

Liability and Financial Responsibility Frameworks for Carbon Capture and Sequestration

2007
Think Tank Report
Elizabeth Wilson, Mark A. DeFigueiredo, Chiara Trabucchi, Kate Larsen
This WRI issue brief examines liability and financial responsibility frameworks potentially applicable to CCS projects by considering existing analogs and options for mitigating the near-and long-term risks of CCS technologies.

Part 2: Analysis of Property Rights Issues Related to Underground Space Used for Geologic Storage of Carbon Dioxide

2007
Scholarly Work
David Cooney
This paper discusses how various states address subsurface property rights and liabilities of using underground pore space for CO2 storage and analyzes case law relating to natural gas storage as a compatible analog to these legal issues.

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