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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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S.2260 – EXPIRE Act of 2014

2014
Proposed Legislation
113th U.S. Congress (2013-2014)
Under this proposed legislation, non-corporate taxpayers would be allowed to exclude Clean Coal Power Initiative (CCPI) grants and awards from gross income.

Understanding barriers to commercial-scale carbon capture and sequestration in the United States: An empirical assessment

2013
Scholarly Work
Lincoln L. Davies, Kirsten Uchitel, John Ruple
This paper identifies the lack of a comprehensive regulatory regime governing CCS technology and how fragmented regulation is a significant barrier to CCS deployment.

Carbon Capture & Storage Summary Report of the Regulatory Framework Assessment

2013
Scientific Report
The Steering Committee of the Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) Regulatory Framework Assessment
This report recommends regulatory changes related to the technical, environmental, safety, and monitoring requirements for the safe deployment of CCS as well as other actions to increase the body of knowledge on CCS-related topics.

Research on Policy System for Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage in China

2013
Scholarly Work
ZHAO Rong-qin, DING Ming-lei, HUANG Xian-jin
This paper sets forth the basic ideas and the framework of a policy system for the development of CCUS technology in China.

Liability for Sequestered CO2: The Path Forward for Alberta

2013
Scholarly Work
Mike Fernandez, Chad Leask, Chris Arnot
This paper highlights the benefits Alberta has obtained from the passage of carbon capture and storage (CCS) legislation and summarizes some of the work taking place via the Regulatory Framework Assessment (RFA).

Alberta’s Energy Future in Carbon Capture and Storage: A Comparative Analysis of CCS Legislation

2013
Scholarly Work
Megan Lancashire
This report examines the CCS legislation passed in Wyoming, Kansas, Montana and the States of Victoria and Queensland in Australia to generate an understanding of the positive and negative elements of written CCS legislation in Alberta.

Risk Assessment and Management Associated with CCS

2013
Scholarly Work
Behdeen Oraee-Mirzamani, Tim Cockerill, Zen Makuch
This paper carries out a policy review to assess the risks involved in the CCS industry and identifies uncertainties with regards to the risks that make policy making and insuring CCS projects very difficult.

CCS projects as Kyoto Protocol CDM activities

2013
Scholarly Work
Tim Dixon, Gregory Leamon, Paul Zakkour, Luke Warren
This paper analyses the December 2011 decision by the meetings of the UNFCCC in Durban, South Africa, to adopt modalities and procedures for CCS as clean development mechanism (CDM) project activities under the Kyoto Protocol.

Digging Deep: Property Rights in Subterranean Space and the Challenge of Carbon Capture and Storage

2013
Scholarly Work
Jill Morgan
This paper considers the extent of a surface landowner's rights above and below land and explores the treatment of underground space within the context of CCS in relation to differing jurisdictions, with particular attention paid to the U.S. and U.K.

The legal framework for carbon capture and storage (CCS)

2013
Scholarly Work
S. Bell
This book chapter provides an overview of relevant international law for CCS and an analysis of the key provisions of European Directive 2009/31/EC on the geological storage of CO2.

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