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by Stan Beer   
Wednesday, 16 April 2008
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Unity among various factions of the green movement in Australia appears to be disintegrating as a result of disagreement over the purported greening of coal power.

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In one corner are hardliners Greenpeace and the Australian Greens political party, who believe coal is flat out evil, facing off against the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) and the Climate Institute, who have teamed up with the coal industry to push investigations of whether coal power carbon emissions can be cleaned up by carbon capture and sequestration technologies.

Carbon capture and storage technologies seek to trap and divert the carbon dioxide emissions of coal fired power plants into natural storage facilities in the earth such as old disused natural gas mines instead of allowing the greenhouse gas to escape into the atmosphere. The technology was strongly supported by the previous Howard Government which was mindful that Australia's energy and economic future is still strongly tied to its abundant coal reserves

Opponents of carbon capture claim the technology is impractical, expensive and may even be dangerous if the stored carbon dioxide finds its way back into the atmosphere through the water table. An incident that occurred in 1986 at Lake Nyos in Cameroon, when a large carbon dioxide cloud was suddenly emitted from the volcanic lake fatally suffocating 1700 people who lived in the valley below, is sometimes used by opponents to illustrate the potential danger of carbon dioxide sequestration. CONTINUED page 2


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