Carbon capture and storage (CCS) is the technological process of capturing carbon dioxide from a power plant or industrial activity and the storage of that captured carbon dioxide in an underground basalt formation, saline aquifer, depleted oil and gas reservoir, or sub-sea geologic formation.
José Ricardo Lemes de Almeida, Haline de Vasconcellos Rocha, Hirdan Katarina de Medeiros Costa, Edmilson Moutinho dos Santos, Cristina F. Rodrigues, Manoel J. Lemos deSousa
This paper discusses the civil liability regarding CCS in Brazilian environmental law and shows that the lack of a legal and regulatory framework of CCS activities represents the main barrier to its national development.
This article considers that EU Member States and the industry need to cooperate closely with site‐specific agreements and give commercially reasonable meaning to the EU CCS Directive’s terms in order to facilitate deployment of the technology.
This article describes the potential of CCS for achieving deep decarbonization of the U.S. power sector, explains the key components of CCS, and identifies and recommends several federal and state legal reforms necessary to drive it forward.
This article offers a survey of CCS projects in the South China Sea region and discusses the legal challenges associated with CCS activities in state practice.
This report aims to illustrate and explain how the various UNFCCC 'vehicles' are linked and how they individually and collectively can be used to support CCS while simultaneously enhancing climate mitigation outcomes.
National Energy Technology Laboratory, Great Plains Institute
This report documents key findings from a technical workshop sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy to identify and promote best practices for siting and regulating CO2 infrastructure (pipelines, EOR, and other geologic CO2 storage sites).
This article argues that the challenge of subsurface trespass associated with CCS can be overcome by conceptualizing pore space rights in the storage complex as limited common property with rights of proportionate use.
Ken Allinson, Dan Burt, Lisa Campbell, Lisa Constable, Mark Crombie, Arthur Lee, Vinicius Lima, Tim Lloyd, Lee Solsbey
This paper identifies the legal, regulatory and economic challenges in the USA, Canada, EU, Australia, and Brazil that must be addressed if an enhanced oil recovery (EOR) project is to serve as a CCS project.