The federal government issues permits for two new offshore greenhouse gas storage areas, off the coast of Western Australia and the Northern Territory.
But she said the government was not by any measure resting all of its emissions reductions hopes on CCS.
"Carbon capture and storage does not work, as has been proven time and again by several high profile failures of CCS technology, most recently at Chevron's Gorgon CCS plant in WA," CCWA executive director Maggie Wood said. "Ring fencing thousands of acres of our marine environment as a store for carbon pollution is every bit as wrongheaded and dangerous as it sounds and this plan will now become a huge liability for the Australian taxpayer.
"Like we do for all other interests in the country, like mineral tenements and gas exploration, so it's just another function of Geoscience Australia to identify this to the market."One of the highest emitting resources projects in WA is Chevron's Gorgon gas project, which has included a trouble-plagued CCS project.
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