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Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage

Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage (CCUS) technologies involve the capture of carbon dioxide (CO₂) from fuel combustion or industrial processes, the transport of this CO₂ via ship or pipeline, and either its use as a resource to create valuable products or services or its permanent storage underground.
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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.

Storing Carbon: Options for Liability Risk Management, Financial Responsibility

2008
Scholarly Work
Chiara Trabucchi, Lindene Patton
This article recommends the creation of a ‘federal government corporation’ in combination with a suite of financial risk management mechanisms to ensure the deployment of CCS technology in an efficient, safe, and environmentally balanced manner.

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.

Trojan horse or horn of plenty? Reflections on allowing CCS in the CDM

2008
Scholarly Work
Heleen de Coninck
This paper is a review of the discussion, as it was happening, around allowing CO2 capture and geological storage (CCS) into the Kyoto Protocol's Clean Development Mechanism (CDM).

Policy Option Paper — Closing the Liability Gap

2008
Think Tank Report
Mary Griffiths
This report proposes that long-term CCS liability should focus on the liability for leaks to any area outside the designated storage zone after the abandonment of the injection well.

Legal Issues Associated with the Adoption of Commercial Scale CCS Projects

2008
Think Tank Report
Nigel Bankes
This report addresses the legal and regulatory challenges associated with the adoption of commercial scale carbon capture and storage projects in Canada, with a close look at property issues and the regulatory framework.

The Influence of Business and Industry NGOs in the Negotiation of the Kyoto Mechanisms: the Case of Carbon Capture and Storage in the CDM

2008
Scholarly Work
Irja Vormedal
This article examines the role of business and industry NGOs during the negotiation to include CCS technologies as a Kyoto Protocol mitigation option.

Carbon Capture and Storage: A Need for Re-conceiving Property Interests and Resource Management in the Australian Legal System

2008
Scholarly Work
Ross Ashcroft
This paper identifies the issues around property interests and resource management in the Australian legal system and proposes a CCS oriented framework to address the issues.

Greenhouse Gas Geological Sequestration Act 2008 (No. 61).

2008
Enacted Legislation
State of Victoria, Australia
This act aims to facilitate and regulate the injection of GHGs into underground geological formations for the purpose of permanent storage, including to facilitate and regulate the exploration for suitable underground geological storage formations.

Fla. Stat. § 366.8255

2008
Enacted Legislation
State of Florida
Allows inclusion of “costs or expenses prudently incurred for scientific research and geological assessments of carbon capture and storage” in utilities’ environmental compliance costs which may be recovered from ratepayers.

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