Carbon capture? Not in my yard
July 16th, 2010
In May I was flown to Pittsburgh, birthplace of America’s coal industry, to attend the annual conference of the Global Carbon Capture and Storage Institute. A mistake all round, probably.
I’d written a few columns critical of the idea that, instead of the world reducing its carbon dioxide emissions, we might bury them underground. Perhaps the GCCSI thought I would come round to its way of thinking. I thought its preparedness to engage with a critic was admirable. We signed the agreements – I could write whatever I liked – and off I went. Source