Australia: CO2 plant ‘a step towards’ clean coal

The opening of Australia’s first carbon capture and storage (CCS) demonstration plant in Victoria has been hailed as a major step toward making “clean coal” viable.

The Otway Basin Project in south-west Victoria will see up to 100,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide captured from natural gas injected 2km underground in a depleted gas reservoir.
During the two-year trial, CO2 will be compressed and transported to the basin near Nirranda, about 30km east of Warrnambool.

The project is part of research to learn if emissions can be successfully trapped in geological formations, as a way of curbing the greenhouse gases produced by fossil fuels.

Sydney Morning Herald