Carbon capture a justified ‘$1bn bet’ given possible returns

NEWS: CO2-sucking technology risks being abandoned, unless governments back projects on a par with other clean sources, expert warns
Delegates inspecting a model of a CCS plant at the Carbon Sequestration Leadership Forum in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia on Nov 4 (credit: IISD reporting services) Large-scale projects have doubled on a decade earlier, with 15 set to be running by the end of 2015, with a combined capacity of 28 million tonnes of CO2 a year.

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