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Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage


Carbon Capture and Storage

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.
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Reconciling Property Rights with Carbon Capture and Storage

2023
Scholarly Work
Keith Hall
This article argues for a rethinking of property rights in the context of carbon capture and storage (CCS) - away from injunctive relief to stop subsurface migrations of CO2 and towards required compensation for landowners after an intrusion of CO2.

Pore Texas: Defining the Ownership of Underground Pore Space for Carbon Capture and Sequestration in Texas

2023
Scholarly Work
Tyler Roberts
This paper argues that Texas should adopt legislation that expressly designates ownership of pore space to the surface owner.

2023 North Dakota Law Review Energy Law Symposium

2023
News/Commentary
North Dakota Law Review
Links to presentations on the legal framework for geologic storage of carbon dioxide.

State Sequestration: Federal Policy Accelerates Carbon Storage, But Leaves Full Climate, Equity Protections to States

2023
Scholarly Work
Gabriel Pacyniak
This paper describes state-federal governance dynamics regarding CCS and concludes by identifying potential legal tools that states can use to address those dynamics.

Carbon Capture and Storage: Models for Compensating Holdout Landowners

2023
Scholarly Work
Keith Hall
This article discusses three potential models for compensating holdout property owners of subsurface pore space relevant to CCS projects.

Limits to Paris Compatibility of CO2 Capture and Utilization

2022
Scholarly Work
Kiane de Kleijne, Steef V. Hanssen, Lester van Dinteren, Mark A.J. Huijbregts, Rosalie van Zelm, Heleen de Coninck
This paper finds that for a CCU technology to be Paris Agreement compatible by 2030, it has to have low GHG emissions from CO2 capture and conversion, replace a GHG-intensive substitute, and in most cases lead to permanent storage.

Legal and Regulatory Frameworks for CCUS: An IEA CCUS Handbook

2022
Scholarly Work
International Energy Agency
This handbook identifies 25 priority issues that CCUS legal and regulatory frameworks should address for deployment, and presents global case studies on how different jurisdictions have approached these issues.

Instruction Memorandum on the use of pore space on U.S. public lands

2022
Policy Proposal
United States Department of the Interior
This Instruction Memorandum conveys policy and direction for authorizing rights-of-way to use public lands for site characterization, transportation, injection, capture, and geologic sequestration of carbon dioxide at appropriately

Governance of Continental Shelf Spaces in the Energy Transition: Offshore Carbon Storage in Transboundary Geological Formations

2022
Scholarly Work
Constantinos Yiallourides
The paper examines the governance of offshore carbon dioxide storage operations in the transboundary context under the light of applicable international rules and regulations and state practice.

National Policy for the Right-of-Way Authorizations Necessary for Site Characterization, Capture, Transportation, Injection, and Permanent Geologic Sequestration of Carbon Dioxide in Connection with Carbon Sequestration Projects

2022
Policy Proposal
Bureau of Land Management
This Instruction Memorandum (IM) conveys policy and direction for authorizing rights-of-way (ROWs) to use public lands for CO2 sequestration projects.

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