Carbon capture critics put ideology before cooling the planet
Instead of pretending the CCS technology doesn’t work, anti-fossil fuel campaigners should support every mechanism that can reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
Next month marks the 25th anniversary of the Sleipner gasfield’s carbon capture and storage project. Each year the North Sea project continues to scrub a million tonnes of carbon from the gas it produces. That carbon is then injected into geological formations 1000 metres under the seabed, where it will remain.
Around the world there are 65 commercial CCS projects in various stages of development. Globally, carbon capture and storage capacity has increased by 33 per cent in the past two years.
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Joel Fitzgibbon is chair of the Australian Forest Products Association.
