Who wants CCS?
From a climate perspective, coal is the worst choice, the authors say, and some plants are beginning to be rejected on that ground. But coal-rich and oil-rich nations are backing CCS with a lot of research money, money that could be spent on furthering the efficiency, reliability and affordability of renewable technologies. The authors believe that it is either CCS, and keeping the business as usual paradigm, or renewable technologies with the paradigm shift that that requires. Right now, the oil and coal industries are betting on CCS. But if we all understand that we should only talk about the lower cost of coal-fired generation with CCS included, then we can more clearly see which technologies are sustainable. Have we got the time? CCS is supported by environmental NGOs such as Norway’s Zero Emissions Resource Organization (ZERO). That’s in part because Norway is a fierce backer of CCS, and has a success story to tell – at the Sleipner gas field in the North Sea, over a million tons
