Canadian Firm Soliciting Bids For CCS Plant - Far Smaller Than Canceled US "FutureGen" Pilot

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Aug. 21 (Bloomberg) -- The first coal-fueled plant capable of capturing and burying carbon dioxide will move forward this fall when Canada's Saskatchewan Power Corp. begins lining up vendors to build it. Requests for proposals were sent to 10 companies, SaskPower, as the utility is known, said yesterday in a statement.

Canada, which will spend C$1.4 billion ($1.34 billion) on the plant, is incorporating oil recovery in the plans to offset costs, a different approach than the U.S., which canceled a similar plant last year. Slated for 2013, the Canadian facility will prevent 1 million tons a year of carbon dioxide emissions, Max Ball, the project's manager.

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The Canadian project is much smaller in scope than FutureGen, Luke Popovich, a spokesman for the National Mining Association in Washington, told reporters. The FutureGen approach would ``dwarf any practical use'' for oil recovery, he said. American Electric Power Co., the largest North American producer of electricity from coal, has pushed back plans to begin capturing carbon dioxide for enhanced oil recovery in Oklahoma and hasn't sought bids from contractors, spokesman Pat Hemlepp said in a telephone interview.

Columbus, Ohio-based American Electric said in March 2007 it expected to begin delivering carbon dioxide from the plant in 2011. Delays in developing the carbon-capture technology have pushed back the operating date to at least 2013, Hemlepp said. ``I'm glad somebody else is doing it,'' he said. ``A lot of the industry has been standing around watching.''

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[phantom power]

1. "I'm glad somebody else is doing it"

:rofl:

[NNadir]

2. Um, "enhanced oil recovery" is the same as "sequestration?"

I'll bet that there are a brazillion people who believe that.

In fact there are brazillions of people who refuse to learn how to do math because the results are other than what they desperately and dangerously want to hear.

They are rare die sich nicht mehr belugen wollen, as Hesse used to write in his lighter moments.

[NickB79]

3. Crazy, isn't it?

They want to inject CO2 into played-out oil wells IN ORDER TO PUMP OUT MORE OIL!

And what do we get when we burn all that extra oil? Oh right, more fucking CO2.

The people pushing this technology don't give a fuck about reducing CO2 emissions, just increasing their bank accounts.

Complete and utter Ponzi scheme.

[NNadir]

4. Ponzi is too generous a word. Like all dangerous fossil fuel apologetics

including those advanced ignorant anti-nukes - it is past delusional and bordering on psychotic.