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CARBON SEQUESTRATION FOCUS FOR NEXT MEETING OF
CAMBRENSIS RENEWABLES AND HYDROGEN CONTACT GROUP - FRIDAY 28Th NOVEMBER 2003, 2 - 4 PM, MIDDLE TEMPLE, LONDON EC4

On Friday 28th November in London Cambrensis’ Renewables and Hydrogen Contact Group will be considering the issue of Carbon Sequestration. Many consider this to be a necessary part of planning for hydrogen production from fossil fuels, or indeed for any long term continued use of fossil fuels, but research and arguments continue about the viability and environmental effects of CO2 sequestration.

Ray Purdy, Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Law and the Environment, University College London will give a presentation based in the report he issued with Professor Richard Macrory of that Centre in August 2003 ‘Review of Legal Issues Concerning Geological Sequestration’. These legal aspects – for example, what can and cannot be done under the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea or the OSPAR Convention - are critically important but frequently overlooked.

Panel Discussions will include:

• STATOIL’s existing and planned future North Sea carbon sequestration projects at SLEIPNER and SNOHVIT

• Conclusions of the DTI’s CO2 sequestration seminar in London, 13, 14 October 2003

• Update on the US-led Carbon Sequestration Leadership Forum

The next meeting of Cambrensis’ Renewables and Hydrogen Contact Group after that will be on RENEWABLES TARGETS on Friday 30th January 2004, 2-4 pm, Middle Temple, London EC4. We will be trying to get behind the claim and counter claim, and to start to consider some of the economic and technical questions behind competing renewable technologies, and how these may affect achievement of the UK government’s targets.

For inquiries about membership of Cambrensis’ Renewables and Hydrogen Contact Group, please please contact us

 

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