Irony surrounds Australia's massive carbon capture and storage plant

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ormer Prime Minister Tony Abbott repealed the country’s carbon tax to boost economic competitiveness, so it is ironic that Australia is hosting the world’s most ambitious project for capturing carbon dioxide and storing it underground.

The world's largest carbon capture
and storage project in the  world
and it's in Australia.

Starting in 2014/15, Chevron will begin injecting 120 million tonnes of pressurised supercritical carbon dioxide 2.5 kilometres underground as part of its giant Gorgon LNG project.

Raw gas from the Gorgon field contains about 14 per cent carbon dioxide (CO2), which must be separated out and safely disposed of before the purified methane can be liquefied and sold.

Read the Renewable Energy Daily story - “Gorgon project in Australia is the world’s largest carbon capture project”.