It'd be wonderful if the claims made about carbon capture were true

The International Energy Agency warned this week that, under current energy policies, Australia is unlikely to meet its 2030 climate commitments.

‘The only way CCS on coal will ever be built at scale is with
a carbon price so high it’d kill the rest of the coal sector.’

While the agency had lots to say about the plunging costs of renewables and the need for strong market signals to encourage the retirement of old and inefficient coal generation, Josh Frydenberg, the federal environment and energy minister, seized on the agency’s support for carbon capture and storage (CCS) – despite the technology’s long history of big promises and meagre results.

Last April, Frydenberg visited the newly opened Petra Nova CCS project in Texas. In a video posted to social media the minister, decked out in the obligatory hi-vis vest and hard hat, yells above the noise that the $1bn project is “helping to reduce the carbon footprint by some 40%”.

Read the comment by Simon Holmes à Court on The Guardian - “It'd be wonderful if the claims made about carbon capture were true.”