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Pumping CO2 Underground Best Hope For Climate: Shell [1]

Projects to capture industrial emissions and store them in the earth's crust could cut CO2 pollution by up to 40 percent, according to officials from oil major Shell.

Carbon capture and storage (CCS) -- gathering CO2 emissions at their source and pumping them underground -- faces steep cost hurdles, but may someday be worth hundreds of billions of dollars a year, a Shell executive said.

Publication Date: 
08/05/2009
Planet Ark (Australia) [2]
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Canada [3], Carbon Dioxide [4], Refinery Technology [5], Climate Change [6], Kyoto Protocol [7], Carbon Capture and Storage [8], Cap And Trade [9], Legislation [10], Algeria [11]
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