TY - JOUR
T1 - Regulating the geological sequestration of CO2
AU - Wilson, Elizabeth J.
AU - Morgan, M. Granger
AU - Apt, Jay
AU - Bonner, Mark
AU - Bunting, Christopher
AU - Gode, Jenny
AU - Haszeldine, R. Stuart
AU - Jaeger, Carlo C.
AU - Keith, David W.
AU - McCoy, Sean T.
AU - Pollak, Melisa F.
AU - Reiner, David M.
AU - Rubin, Edward S.
AU - Torvanger, Asbjørn
AU - Ulardic, Christina
AU - Vajjhala, Shalini P.
AU - Victor, David G.
AU - Wright, Iain W.
N1 - Copyright:
Copyright 2011 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2008/4/15
Y1 - 2008/4/15
N2 - Governments worldwide should provide incentives for initial large-scale GS projects to help build the knowledge base for a mature, internationally harmonized GS regulatory framework. Health, safety, and environmental risks of these early projects can be managed through modifications of existing regulations in the EU, Australia, Canada, and the U.S. An institutional mechanism, such as the proposed Federal Carbon Sequestration Commission in the U.S., should gather data from these early projects and combine them with factors such as GS industrial organization and climate regime requirements to create an efficient and adaptive regulatory framework suited to large-scale deployment. Mechanisms to structure long-term liability and fund long-term postclosure care must be developed, most likely at the national level, to equitably balance the risks and benefits of this important climate change mitigation technology. We need to do this right. During the initial field experiences, a single major accident, resulting from inadequate regulatory oversight, anywhere in the world, could seriously endanger the future viability of GS. That, in turn, could make it next to impossible to achieve the needed dramatic global reductions in CO2 emissions over the next several decades. We also need to do it quickly. Emissions are going up, the climate is changing, and impacts are growing. The need for safe and effective CO2 capture with deep GS is urgent.
AB - Governments worldwide should provide incentives for initial large-scale GS projects to help build the knowledge base for a mature, internationally harmonized GS regulatory framework. Health, safety, and environmental risks of these early projects can be managed through modifications of existing regulations in the EU, Australia, Canada, and the U.S. An institutional mechanism, such as the proposed Federal Carbon Sequestration Commission in the U.S., should gather data from these early projects and combine them with factors such as GS industrial organization and climate regime requirements to create an efficient and adaptive regulatory framework suited to large-scale deployment. Mechanisms to structure long-term liability and fund long-term postclosure care must be developed, most likely at the national level, to equitably balance the risks and benefits of this important climate change mitigation technology. We need to do this right. During the initial field experiences, a single major accident, resulting from inadequate regulatory oversight, anywhere in the world, could seriously endanger the future viability of GS. That, in turn, could make it next to impossible to achieve the needed dramatic global reductions in CO2 emissions over the next several decades. We also need to do it quickly. Emissions are going up, the climate is changing, and impacts are growing. The need for safe and effective CO2 capture with deep GS is urgent.
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U2 - 10.1021/es087037k
DO - 10.1021/es087037k
M3 - Review article
C2 - 18497113
AN - SCOPUS:42149091641
SN - 0013-936X
VL - 42
SP - 2718
EP - 2722
JO - Environmental Science and Technology
JF - Environmental Science and Technology
IS - 8
ER -