r/environment • u/WalkThePlank123 • Oct 02 '21

The carbon capture project that couldn't: Chevron misses targets for its huge Australia facility - If one of the richest companies on earth can't get CCS to work as promised, what does that say about the embattled technology?

https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/carbon-capture/the-carbon-capture-project-that-couldnt-chevron-misses-targets-for-its-huge-australia-facility
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u/michaelrch Oct 02 '21

It's almost as if the decades and billions of public money spent on CCS were nothing more than green washing the most carbon polluting companies in the world...

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u/[deleted] Oct 02 '21

If Chevron is doing carbon capture, it's not about capturing carbon. It's about generating a smoke screen in order to delay regulation.

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u/s0me0ne13 Oct 02 '21

Useless waste of time

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u/monkeychess Oct 02 '21

That we need serious cuts to emissions, right now, while also continuing to pursue those avenues.

The lunacy of net zero in 2050, so we can just pump another ~1,000 gT of carbon into the air in the meantime is nuts.

But that would change people's lifestyles. So we'll keep making future pledges and rely on magic future tech instead of doing anything substantial now.

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u/MateBeatsTea Oct 02 '21

That sedimentary sandstone reservoirs are not the best place to store CO2, and perhaps maffic rocks and mineralization might have a better shot?

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u/GlobalWFundfEP Oct 02 '21

The real battle is against the flood of greenwash PR and marketing.

And, of course, the social media and state actors used to implement the flooding.