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.
Elizabeth J. Wilson, Alexandra B. Klass, Sara Bergan
This paper examines potential CCS liability within a U.S. context and surveys the existing environmental and tort law liability regimes that may affect CCS.
This paper analyzes the issues involved in creating a CCS legal regime for New Zealand, including rights to real property, title or permits, relationship with oil and gas operations, regulation, liability, and relationships with other legislation.
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).
This article suggests ways in which risks of CCS can be minimized and managed and considers more broadly when or if CCS should be deployed or whether its use should be limited or rejected in favor of other solutions.
Manfred Fischedick, Katja Pietzner, Nikolaus Supersberger, Andrea Esken, Wilhelm Kuckshinrichs, Petra Zapp, Jochen Linßen, Diana Schumann, Peter Radgen, Clemens Cremer, Edelgard Gruber, Natalie Schnepf, Annette Roser, Farikha Idrissova
This paper presents the results of a collaborative project on public acceptance of Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) in Germany, commissioned by the German Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology (BMWi).
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.
This paper identifies methods of developing legal and regulatory frameworks for natural gas storage in the context of carbon capture and storage (CCS) in Canada.
This paper analyzes the rapid changes made at the international, EU and UK level to shape a legal framework of sub-seabed carbon sequestration and how the EU Emissions Trading Scheme will play a role in the viability of the technology.
Wendy B. Jacobs, Leah Cohen, Leah Kostakidis-Lianos, Sara Rundell
This roadmap focuses on the legal and financial incentives necessary for rapid demonstration of geological sequestration in the absence of national restrictions on CO2 emissions.