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Environmental Guidelines for CarbonDioxide Capture and GeologicalStorage - 2009Environmental Guidelines for Carbon Dioxide Capture andGeological Storage - 2009© Copyright vests in the Commonwealth of Australia and eachAustralian State and Territory.ISBN 1–921173–42–4 (Print)ISBN 1–921173–43–2 (Electronic)This work is copyright. It has been produced by theEnvironment Protection and Heritage Council (EPHC). Apartfrom any use as permitted under the Copyright Act 1968, no partmay be reproduced by any process without prior permissionfrom the NEPC Service Corporation. Requests and enquiriesconcerning reproduction and rights should be addressed to theExecutive Officer, NEPC Service Corporation, Level 5, 81Flinders Street, Adelaide SA 5000.
Environment Protection And Heritage CouncilMinisterial Council On Mineral And Petroleum ResourcesEnvironmental Guidelines for Carbon DioxideCapture and Geological Storage - 2009IntroductionThe Australian Government has committed to reducing Australia’s greenhouse gasemissions by 60 per cent of 2000 emissions by 2050. Capture and permanent geologicalstorage of carbon dioxide, for example in depleted oil and gas reservoirs, saline aquifers orunmineable coal seams, is being proposed as a mechanism to reduce carbon dioxideemissions from the use of fossil fuels.These Guidelines are intended to build on the Carbon Dioxide Capture and GeologicalStorage – Australian Regulatory Guiding Principles endorsed by the Ministerial Councilon Mineral and Petroleum Resources in 2005. They provide regulators, proponents and thepublic with an understanding of the application of existing environmental laws to proposedcarbon dioxide capture and geological storage projects. They are intended to demonstratebest practice and do not seek to place additional burden on existing state and territorygovernment requirements.ContextConcerns about the potential impact of climate change on communities, the environmentand the economy have led to the need for significant reductions in greenhouse gasemissions. Carbon dioxide emissions from the use of fossils fuels for energy productionaccount for approximately 70 per cent of all of Australia’s greenhouse gas emissions, withthe stationary energy sector contributing approximately 50 per cent of total Australianemissions.In 2007, 84 per cent of electricity generation in Australia was based on the use of black orbrown coal, with nine per cent natural gas and seven per cent from hydro-electricity, windpower and a variety of renewable energy sources. Electricity generation globally from coalis around 40 per cent and the use of natural gas for electricity generation is rapidlyincreasing. There has been a significant global growth in the number and scale of highemission industrial facilities such as iron and steel or cement production. As facilitiesinvolved in those processes represent point sources, capture or separation of carbondioxide and other emissions is, in most cases, technically feasible.With demand for energy increasing rapidly in developed and developing countries, energyproduction projections by the International Energy Agency indicate increased use of fossilfuels, with coal being the dominant source for the foreseeable future. Global carbondioxide emissions are already higher than the scenarios used by Intergovernmental Panelon Climate Change in its Fourth Assessment Report (2007) and, if allowed to increase inline with projected energy production, are expected to accelerate the atmospheric warmingthat is already being observed.1
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