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ReutersBig oil firms talk up carbon capture, but do littleWed Sep 5, 2007 8:23AM EDT
By Jane Merriman
ABERDEEN (Reuters) - Major international oil companies
say carbon capture and storage is a way to curb carbon
dioxide emissions while continuing to burn fossil fuels,
but their critics say few are actually investing.
Carbon dioxide is the commonest of several manmade
greenhouse gases widely blamed by scientists for heating
the earth and so risking more extreme weather and sea
level rise.
But these harmful emissions could be reduced if the carbon
can be captured and stored, in depleted oilfields or saline
aquifers, for example.
"Without CCS (carbon capture and storage), fossil fuel use
would have to be cut by more than half," said Malcolm
Brinded, executive director of exploration and production
at Royal Dutch Shell.
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