Just quietly OB, I think he's plagiarised my ideas.
Of course the second biggest emitter here in the west is chevron, still cant get their carbon capture working, even after rudds $ 100 million.
coal for a variety of reasons, is on the way out here in the west, old age is the biggest reason IMO.
I think WA labor, has pledged big money for the collie workers to transition, away from coal.
Chevron is Australia’s sixth-highest greenhouse gas emitter and its Gorgon project on Barrow Island is WA’s second-highest emitting project, estimated to put out almost 10 million tonnes of carbon dioxide a year at full production, second only to its Wheatstone operation.Chevron got environmental approval for Gorgon by promising new technologies to inject at least 80 per cent of ‘reservoir’ emissions into the island’s underground reservoir.
Reservoir gas is a major source of total project emissions, so the method was expected to reduce total project emissions by 40 per cent.
Performance against this target was to be assessed on a five-year average and, if not met, approval conditions stated Chevron would be obliged to offset the emissions. The period is up later this year.
But Chevron faced so many engineering problems with the experimental technology that the injection system only became partially operational by August 2019, three years after production started, when Gorgon had already vented 6.3 million tonnes of carbon.
https://www.watoday.com.au/national/western-australia/carbon-capture-woes-mean-more-emissions-to-be-vented-in-further-embarrassment-for-chevron-s-gorgon-20210112-p56tk5.htmlNow if chevron cant get the carbon capture working, I thinks its only fair that the state of WA step in and take 50 percent of the project.
Raider
