CO2 NEWS

Between Christmas, New Years Eve and the hot Brazil summer (plus a damn iTunes re-install meaning I had to re-organize all my library O_o) I have not had much chance to post anything new but the news were not very much around neither, seems that everybody was on days off, not just Brazil!! I'm using a rather lazy morning to do my CO2 "fun" fact hunting. Just like Batman if you're the Joker, you never know it's hitting you until (batman) actually does! I do not know if these facts are that fun, or what it really means in 20 years time. But yesterday I came across that sad article about disappearing island due to rising sea level. Seeing your whole World disappearing is surely not what nobody wants to see. Especially since we know that no countries really want to your face poping up the immigration list. This time they cannot send you back home because there is no taxi way for the plane to land on!! These people must feel like that guy landing in a country and showing his passport to hear from the immigration guy that his country disappeared over night, hence his passport is no longer valid. You just loose your citizen origins which is quite a complication if your not physically is the given country. And when you look at some quick slides what do you see? That the major CO2 emission countries are the least impacted!

But it's not all that bad now see what is been done lately to help slow down the process:
 canadians are developping a process to pull CO2 out of thin air. Norway's TCM are launching a CCS test centre network in Mongstad.I can't help noticing and won't stop repeating that the oil companies brought us fossil fuel and "burry us" with it, they will also be the major responsible for redirecting our energy focus towards renewable. Probably through government incentive (it goes without saying). Big Oil, the Good, the Bad and the Ugly all at once!
Started in 2011 and quite popular last quarter of 2012 (maybe thanks to the end of the World) there was a lot of discussions about risks in CCS business resulting in this risk management guidelines from DNV.
Last but not least, norwegian are re-iterating that the reservoirs burried beneath the North are able to hold a lot of CO2, like hundreds of year of an entire country emission. Unfortunately they only said Norway, I wish they'd say China or USA... or even Europe. It's not so bad anyway for a start, hopefully more country will evaluate their own ground capacities.

Ta-da!