Archive for October 5th, 2014
Canada: World’s First Carbon Capture Power Plant Switches On
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on October 5th, 2014
Climate Central: Canada has switched on the first large-scale coal-fired power plant fitted with a technology that proponents say enables the burning of fossil fuels without tipping the world into a climate catastrophe.
Boundary Dam CCS power plant in Canada is out to prove coal burning can be good for climate change.
The project, the first commercial-scale plant equipped with carbon capture and storage technology, was held up by the coal industry as a real life example that it is possible to go on burning...