Calls for Federal Carbon Capture Ban After Qld Decision

Published on June 1, 2024

A landmark decision to protect one of the world’s largest underground freshwater reservoirs has prompted calls for a federal carbon capture storage ban. Queensland Premier Steven Miles said he would ban carbon capture and storage (CCS) in the Great Artesian Basin, a water source for 180,000 inland people with an estimated 65 million gigalitres. The proposed laws will extend the ban to any enhanced oil or petroleum recovery that uses a greenhouse gas stream. “The Great Artesian Basin is just too important to Queensland to mess with,” Mr. Miles said on May 31. “That’s why I’m announcing today that we will ban CCS in the Great Artesian Basin.”...

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