This article focuses on the need to address carbon capture and sequestration jurisdiction (what is CCS and how it should be permitted), liability (who is responsible for any harm), and property rights (who owns the various pieces of a CCS system).
Exempts CCS equipment used in a clean energy project from sales and use taxes, if the captured CO2 is either used in a local EOR project or sequestered in Texas for at least 1,000 years
This paper provides a 2009 update of the regulatory and legal developments of CCS in the European Union, United States, Australia, Canada, and Norway, as part of the IEA’s International CCS Regulator’s Network.
The “Oklahoma Carbon Capture and Geologic Sequestration Act” gives jurisdiction to the Corporation Commission to oversee CO2 injections in oil or gas reservoirs and to the Department of Environmental Quality for any other geologic formations.
HB 1129 authorized the South Dakota Public Utilities Commission to regulate the integrity of CO2 pipelines used for transporting CO2 for enhanced oil recovery or geologic sequestration.