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WORKSHOP PRESENTATIONS

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for the March 2009 CCS Public Workshops

James Dooley, Senior Staff Engineer, Joint Global Change Research Institute: Overview of Selected Issues Associated with the Scale of the Climate Change Challenge and the Potential Role of Large Scale Commercial Deployment of Carbon Dioxide Capture and Storage Technologies (Climate Change:  The Scale of the Task that Confronts Us)
Presentation: http://docs.nrdc.org/globalWarming/files/glo_09031101e.pdf
Video: http://www.vimeo.com/5732246

Sally Benson, Executive Director, Global Climate & Energy Project, Stanford University:  Carbon Dioxide Capture and Sequestration in Deep Geological Formations (CCS:  A Primer)
Presentation: http://docs.nrdc.org/globalWarming/files/glo_09031101b.pdf
Video:  http://www.vimeo.com/5732815

Susan Hovorka, Principal Investigator, Bureau of Economic Geology, University of Texas:  Key Field Studies and Conclusions
Presentation:  http://docs.nrdc.org/globalWarming/files/glo_09031101l.pdf
Video:  http://www.vimeo.com/5787800

Howard Herzog, Principal Researcher, CCS Technologies Program, Laboratory for Energy & the Environment, Massachusetts Institute of Technology:  Carbon Capture & Sequestration Economics
Presentation:  http://docs.nrdc.org/globalWarming/files/glo_09031101j.pdf
Video:  http://www.vimeo.com/5788064

Julio Friedmann, Leader, Energy & Environment Directorate, Carbon Management Program, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory:  Carbon Sequestration Risks and Hazards: What we know and what we don’t know.  Presentation given by Sally Benson
Presentation:  http://docs.nrdc.org/globalWarming/files/glo_09031101g.pdf
Video:  http://www.vimeo.com/5732961

Gardiner Hill, Director, BP Alternative Energy Global Carbon Sequestration Technology Group:  Carbon Capture & Sequestration: Views from Industry
Presentation:  http://docs.nrdc.org/globalWarming/files/glo_09031101k.pdf

Caroline Angoorly, Head of Environmental Markets - North America J.P. Morgan, Global Commodities:  Carbon Capture & Sequestration: Views from Industry, Part II
Presentation:  http://docs.nrdc.org/globalWarming/files/glo_09031101a.pdf
Video:  http://www.vimeo.com/5736311

Ronald T. Evans – Senior Vice President, Reservoir Engineering, Denbury Resources:  Carbon Capture & Sequestration: The Enhanced Oil Recovery Story
Presentation:  http://docs.nrdc.org/globalWarming/files/glo_09031101f.pdf
Video: http://www.vimeo.com/5746035

Tim Bradley – President, Kinder-Morgan CO2 Company:  Carbon Capture & Sequestration: The Enhanced Oil Recovery Story
Presentation:  http://docs.nrdc.org/globalWarming/files/glo_09031101c.pdf
Video:  http://www.vimeo.com/5736556

David Hawkins, Director, Climate Programs, Natural Resources Defense Council: CCS Policy Needs: Reconciling Coal and Climate (CCS Policy Needs)
Presentation:  http://docs.nrdc.org/globalWarming/files/glo_09031101h.pdf
Video:  http://www.vimeo.com/5746949

Mark Brownstein, Managing Director of Business Partnerships, Environmental Defense Fund:  CCS Policy Context
Presentation:  http://docs.nrdc.org/globalWarming/files/glo_09031101d.pdf
Video:  http://www.vimeo.com/5746344

Stephen Heare, Director, Drinking Water Protection Division, Office of Ground Water and Drinking Water, Environmental Protection Agency:  EPA’s Geologic Sequestration Rulemaking (Emerging Regulatory Frameworks for CCS)
Presentation:  http://docs.nrdc.org/globalWarming/files/glo_09031101i.pdf
Video:  http://www.vimeo.com/5747331

John Mimikakis, Senior Policy Manager, Environmental Defense Fund:  CCS Policy Perspectives
Presentation:  http://docs.nrdc.org/globalWarming/files/glo_09031101m.pdf

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Please click on links below for further information about Carbon Capture and Sequestration

REPORTS – PAPERS

 Reducing emissions

• Edmonds, JA, MA Wise, JJ Dooley, SH Kim, SJ Smith, PJ Runci, LE Clarke, EL Malone, and GM Stokes, “Global Energy Technology Strategy:  Addressing Climate Change, Phase 2 Findings from an International Public-Private Sponsored Research Program,” Global Energy Technology Strategy Program, May (2007).  Link: http://www.pnl.gov/gtsp/docs/gtsp_2007_final.pdf
  
  
  
• Hawkins, David, Daniel Lashof, and Robert Williams, “What to Do,” Scientific American, September (2006).  Link: http://www.zerocarbonnow.org/papers/climate/Scentific%20American/what_to_do_about_coal_2006_0906068.pdf
•  Heller, Arnie, “Locked in Rock: Sequestering Carbon,”   Science & Technology Review, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, May (2005). Link: http://www.llnl.gov/str/May05/pdfs/05_05.2.pdf
  
  
• IEA Greenhouse Gas R&D Programme, “A Review of Natural CO2 Occurrences and Releases and the Relevance to CO2 Storage,” International Energy Agency, Report Number 2005/8, September (2005).  Link: http://www.co2storage.org/Reports/Natural%20Releases%20Report.pdf
  
  
•  IEA Greenhouse Gas R&D Programme, “Natural Releases of CO₂,” International Energy Agency. Link: http://www.ieagreen.org.uk/glossies/naturalreleases.pdf
  
  
• Kuuskraa, Vello A., “A Program to Accelerate the Deployment of CO₂ Capture and Storage (CCS): Rationale, Objectives, and Costs,” Pew Center on Global Climate Change, Coal Initiative Reports: White Paper Series, October 2007.
  Link:  http://www.pewclimate.org/docUploads/CCS-Deployment.pdf
  
  
  
• Peña, Naomi, “A Trust Fund Approach to Accelerating Deployment of CCS:  Options and Considerations”, Pew Center on Global Climate Change, Coal Initiative Reports: White Paper Series, January 2008.
  Link: http://www.pewclimate.org/docUploads/Trust-Fund-FINAL.pdf
  
  
  
• Pew Center on Global Climate Change, “Coal Initiative Reports: White Paper Series”.
  Link: http://www.pewclimate.org/white_papers/coal_initiative
  
  
  
• Pew Center on Global Climate Change, “Addressing Emissions from Coal Use in Power Generation,” Congressional Policy Brief, Fall 2008. 
  Link:http://www.pewclimate.org/docUploads/DDCF-Coal.pdf
  
  
  
• Socolow, Robert H. and Stephen Pacala, “A Plan to Keep Carbon in Check,” Scientific American, September (2006).  Link:  http://www.sciam.com/carbon/0906050.pdf
  
  
• Socolow, Robert H., “Can We Bury Global Warming?” Scientific American, July (2005). http://www.princeton.edu/~cmi/research/Integration/Papers/ScientificAmericanArticle.pdf
  
  
•  Socolow, Robert H., Roberta Hotinski, Jeffery B. Greenblatt, and Stephen Pacala, “Solving the Climate Problem:  Technologies Available to Curb CO₂ Emissions,” Environment, Volume 46, No. 10: 8-19, December (2004). Link: http://www.princeton.edu/~cmi/resources/CMI_Resources_new_files/Environ_08-21a.pdf

Carbon Capture & Sequestration in more detail

• Benson, S.M., and T. Surles, Carbon Dioxide Capture and Storage: An Overview with Emphasis on Capture and Storage in Deep Geological Formations, The Proceedings Special Issue, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), Vol. 94, No 10, October 2006, DOI 10.1109/PROC.2006.883716.
  Link: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/freeabs_all.jsp?arnumber=4016413
  
  
  
• Burton, Elizabeth A., Richard Myhre, Larry Myer, and Kelly Birkinshaw, “Geologic Carbon Sequestration Strategies for California, The Assembly Bill 1925 Report to the California Legislature,”. California Energy Commission, Systems Office. CEC-500-2007-100-SF. 
  Link: http://www.energy.ca.gov/2007publications/CEC-500-2007-100/CEC-500-2007-100-SF.PDF
  
  
• "Carbon Capture and Storage: Making it Happen,” A High-Level Roundtable co-organized by Friends of Europe, The Bellona Foundation and the European Technology Platform for Zero Emission Fossil Fuel Power Plants with Support from the Carbon Capture and Storage Association and the CO₂ Capture Project, May 2008.
  Link: http://www.co2captureproject.org/reports/CCS_Making_it_Happen_May_2008.pdf
• “CO₂ Capture and Geological Storage: Some Key Principles for Policymakers,” CO₂ Capture Project, 2008.
  Link: http://www.co2captureproject.org/reports/In-depth_brochure_2_page.pdf
• Dooley, JJ, RT Dahowski, CL Davidson, MA Wise, N Gupta, SH Kim, and EL Malone, “Carbon Dioxide Capture and Geologic Storage:  A Core Element of a Global Energy Technology Strategy to Address Climate Change," The Global Energy Technology Strategy Program, April (2006). Link: http://www.pnl.gov/gtsp/docs/ccs_report.pdf
  
  
• Folger, Peter, “CRS Report for Congress:  Direct Carbon Sequestration:  Capturing and Storing CO2,” Congressional Research Service, January (2007). Link: http://www.ncseonline.org/NLE/CRSreports/07Oct/RL33801.pdf
  
  
•  Foxall, W., and Friedmann, S.J., “Frequently Asked Questions about Carbon Sequestration and Earthquakes,” Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Energy and Environmental Security Program, 2008.
  Link: https://eed.llnl.gov/co2/pdf/Seismicity_FAQs_final4.pdf
  
  
• Hovorka, S.D., S. M. Benson, C. Doughty, B. M. Freifeld, S. Sakurai, T. M. Daley, Y. K. Kharaka, Mark H. Holtz, R. C. Trautz, H. S. Nance, L. R. Myer and K. G. Knauss, (2006),^. Measuring permanence of CO₂ storage in saline formations: the Frio experiment. Environmental Geosciences; June 2006; v. 13; no. 2; p. 105-121; DOI: 10.1306/eg.11210505011.
  
  
  
• IEA Greenhouse Gas R&D Programme, “Geologic Storage of Carbon Dioxide:  Staying Safely Underground,” International Energy Agency. Link: http://www.ieagreen.org.uk/glossies/geostoragesfty.pdf
  
  
• IEA Greenhouse Gas R&D Programme, “Storing CO2 Underground,” International Energy Agency.  Link: http://www.ieagreen.org.uk/glossies/storingCO2.pdf
  
  
  
• Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, “IPCC Special Report on Carbon Dioxide Capture and Storage, Summary for Policy Makers and Technical Summary,” IPCC, (2005). Link: http://www.ipcc.ch/ipccreports/srccs.htm
  
  
• MIT, “The Future of Coal: an Interdisciplinary MIT Study,” Massachusetts Institute of Technology, (2007).  Link:  http://web.mit.edu/coal/The_Future_of_Coal.pdf

Policy

• Berlin, Ken and Robert M. Sussman, “Global Warming and the Future of Coal:  The Path to Carbon Capture and Storage,” Center for American Progress, May (2007).  Link: http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2007/05/pdf/coal_report.pdf
  
• Carter, L.D., “Carbon Capture and Storage From Coal-Based Power Plants:  A White Paper on Technology for the American Public Power Association,” APPA, May (2007).  Link: http://www.appanet.org/files/PDFs/CarbonCapture&StorageFromCoalMay07.pdf
• Hawkins, David and George Peridas, “No Time Like the Present: NRDC’s Response to MIT’s ‘Future of Coal’ Report,” NRDC, March (2007).  Link: http://www.nrdc.org/globalwarming/coal/mit.pdf
• Herzog, Howard and Dan Golomb, “Carbon Capture and Storage from Fossil Fuel Use,” MIT Laboratory for Energy and the Environment, (2004).  Link: http://sequestration.mit.edu/pdf/enclyclopedia_of_energy_article.pdf
  
  
• Parfomak, Paul W., “CRS Report for Congress: CO2 Pipelines for Carbon Sequestration:  Emerging Policy Issues,” Congressional Research Service, April (2007). Link: http://www.ncseonline.org/NLE/CRSreports/07May/RL33971.pdf
  
  
• Stangeland, Aage, “Why CO2 Capture and Storage is an Important Strategy to Reduce Global CO2 Emissions,” Environmental Foundation Bellona, September (2007). Link: http://www.bellona.org/position_papers/WhyCCS_1.07
  
  
  
• World Wildlife Fund Position Paper, “Carbon Capture and Storage from Fossil Fuels”.
  Link: http://assets.panda.org/downloads/wwfpositionstorage.doc

NEWSLETTERS

•   “The Carbon Sequestration Newsletter,” National Energy Technology Laboratory
  Link: http://www.netl.doe.gov/technologies/carbon_seq/refshelf/subscribe.html
  

• International Energy Agency Greenhouse Gas R&D Programme Newsletter, Link:  http://www.ieagreen.org.uk/ghissues.html

PRESS ARTICLES and other material

• Benson, Sally, Peter Cook, Howard Herzog, Susan Hovorka and George Peridas, Letter to Assemblymember Loni Hancock, July (2007).  Link: http://www.co2crc.com.au/PUBFILES/CO2FUTURES/EXTRA/CCS_Letter_NRCommittee.pdf
  
  
• Brown, Valerie J., “Of Two Minds: Groups Square Off on Carbon Mitigation,” Environmental Health Perspectives, Volume 115, Number 11, November (2007). Link: http://www.ehponline.org/docs/2007/115-11/spheres-abs.html
  
  
  
• Lau, Edie, “State’s CO2 Idea:  Bury it,” Sacramento Bee, March (2007) Link: http://www.sacbee.com/101/story/121888.html
  
  
  
• Montague, Peter, “Carbon Sequestration and the Precautionary Principle,” Gristmill.grist.org, November (2007). Link: http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2007/11/10/151448/65
  
  
• Schmidt, Charles W., “Carbon Capture and Storage:  Blue-Sky Technology or Just Blowing Smoke?”, Environmental Health Perspectives, Volume 115, Number 11, November (2007). Link: http://www.ehponline.org/docs/2007/115-11/focus-abs.html
  
  
  
• Williams, Jane, “Carbon Sequestration: Injection of Toxic Gases into Poor Communities or the Salvation of the Fossil Fuel Industry, or Both?” April (2007). Link: http://www.californiaprogressreport.com/2007/04/carbon_sequestr.html

VIEW AGENDAS FOR THE MARCH 2009 WORKSHOPS BY CLICKING LINKS BELOW: 

The Natural Resources Defense Council and Environmental Defense Fund hosted two East Coast workshops exploring issues related to Carbon Capture & Sequestration (CCS).  The first workshop was an all-day event on March 5, 2009 at the Bloomberg National Headquarters in New York City.  The second workshop was a half-day event in U.S. House of Representatives in Washington, D.C. on March 6, 2009. It is our hope that these workshops contributed to the public dialogue regarding the role of CCS in lowering greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs).

Global climate change is one of the most significant environmental issues of the 21st Century.  Many strategies have emerged to help the nation and the rest of the world reduce the concentration of GHGs in the atmosphere, including increasing energy efficiency, reducing consumption of petroleum-based transportation fuels, increasing renewable energy and sustainable biofuels, and halting deforestation, to name but a few.

CCS has been identified as a potential transitional tool in the climate change mitigation portfolio. The process of CCS entails capturing carbon dioxide (CO2) from large point sources, such as power plants and refineries, and injecting the captured CO₂ into deep underground formations for permanent retention, thereby keeping it out of the atmosphere.  Some have expressed concerns about this process.  Yet considering the need to move as quickly as possible to reduce CO2 emissions, it is important to consider all options and critical for the public, policy makers and investors to understand the technology clearly, its associated risks and the state of our knowledge.

We hope these forums provided an opportunity to bring a diverse audience together for an open discussion on CCS.  As you can see from the agendas, we have assembled top experts on CCS technology, along with other key participants in the policy process and industry, to explore the potential role of CCS in combating climate change and in developing a sustainable energy policy.

The workshops took place as follows: