Angus Taylor has been spruiking carbon capture technology. Here's what he's not saying

Plagued by technical difficulties through 2017 and 2018, Chevron continued to operate the Gorgon gas facility while sending all of its greenhouse gas emissions into the atmosphere.

Now, according to Chevron's own estimates, the Gorgon facility will eventually capture a maximum of around 4 million tonnes of CO2 annually. Based on previous years, that might be about 40 per cent of annual emissions — and the sequestration process only started to work, partially, in 2019. But most of Australia's industry, as well as coal and gas-fired power plants, does not have such convenient geology nearby.

That leaves 60 per cent of their emissions, or around 5 million tonnes of CO2 annually based on past figures, flowing into the atmosphere.

WittaTwitta Is carbon capture technology actually something real or just a figment of the imagination of carbon polluting lobbyists and the politicians they have purchased?

Well done, Minister for Doctored Documents!

FFS MORE LIES. DISGUSTED.

Demonchessa Oooh. I thought I was finally going to find an ABC article I could use an example of how to write analysis, but you just had to put the opinion paragraph on at the end :(

Another liar LNP never tells the try

Perhaps carbon sequestration could be used to absorb some of Angus Taylor's drivel.

So why aren't your presenters David_Speers leighsales mjrowland68 LisaMillar bringing this up every time this gas policy is discussed & political programs insiders abc730 running it as a major story?

Just keep tapping them along Angus. We know AGW is a crock of shiiite anyway 😂👍🏼

TonyHWindsor Did you consult nature Angus. Capturing gas reeks of silent leeks and flatulance.

Of course there is tested and proven zeroemission technology that runs 24/7 with a lifetime of at least double anything renewables. It is called nuclear

What Taylor doesn’t say: that he and the truth aren’t even on speaking terms.

So CC being safe is a lie, the same as CSG being safe Is a lie? I am shocked th a t the government would lie to the public 😲.

Libs failing again to just meet the standard of basic competence, maybe we wouldn’t need nearly as much carbon capture if we didn’t use gas for no reason? Renewables are cheaper and gas is a waste of money

quite simply, carbon capture is a dud Let him explain / present a working carbon capture scheme in detail and not just idiotic generalities.

There is no need for technology, nature has been doing it for millions of years. Without co2 we all die.

Is a fool.

I am pleased to see you are no longer calling your opinions news. Analysis. That's ok.

A spiv by any name

Like Clean Coal, Carbon Capture do NOT exist. John Howard used this excuse to do nothing, repeat and rinse with this corrupt mob.

TonyHWindsor This guy Taylor please spare me,he’s nothing but a fraud and a failure as a politician, also a liar 🤥 should have been sacked many scandals ago,his charter is to protect the fossil fuel industry,him , Morrison,Murdoch,the whole lot of those bloody con artists should go,i😍Aus.

Chevron took 60 mill of public money based on a forecast CO2 capture that, after 4 years, they are only now meeting by 50%. The tech is an unviable scam. Angus Taylor has no shame.

GCobber99 Who does he work for again?

That he's got family in the carbon capture sector as well as the water business? SpivsAndShonks WellDoneAngus auspol

AngusTaylorMP should not be talking representing Australia until he and Barnaby_Joyce face a Judicial inquiry. There bank accounts frozen and suspended of all duties until the outcome Watergate AustralianLabor PenB AlboMP

TonyHWindsor

Why were Taylor’s comments not challenged by Fran Kelly? Her researches would have had this information available to them, if they had bothered to look. Journalists has become advertising tools for ministers rather than questioning, challenging and clarifying ‘information’.

How much is AnGAS and his family making out of this lurk?

“data shows that the Gorgon facility emitted over 7.7 million tonnes of CO2 in the 2016-17 reporting period. Energy consulting firm Energetics estimated at the time that these emissions wiped out all the savings made by rooftop solar across Australia in the same period”

He's not saying where the fraudulent document came from targeting CloverMoore travel expenses? Its not hard to find out & yet the ABC is giving him more opportunity to promote his financial interests & not answer more questions? auspol JournalismIsDead

It’s a crock?

How about we talk about 'Battery Storage', rather than Carbon capture or Carbon storage? AngusTaylorMP

A price on carbon for CSS to even be considered. A price on carbon would pretty much close every CF power stations overnight unless they were subsidised by the taxpayer. This 'announcement' is just to appear to be doing something about climate change while stalling real action.

Poor chap held to ransom by the non renewable industry.

I don’t listen to what he is saying because he’s a crook.

Chevron was unable to get the technology to work. Despite that, they started operating their gas processing facility in 2016, without capturing any of its greenhouse emissions at all' Taylor's CON

Carbon capture is a hoax, always has been!

Taylor has been spruiking carbon capture tech'it is total crap to keep coal going Why are we wasting millions funding research on crap?

He's not saying that it doesn't work and it's another opportunity to channel money to his donors Ps I haven't read the article 🤔

Carbon capture? What now? Does AngusTaylorMP know of a sugar cane farm in the Caymans he thinks Australia should buy? auspol

Angus Taylor is capital slime. A devious crim would be proud of his actions.

Future generations will wonder why we allowed this man to spruik environmental vandalism, while they face the disastrous consequences of his decisions. The only risk-free sequestration of CO2 is by photosynthesis. Hasnt AngusTaylorMP heard Tony Abbott? - it's plant food.

And now it seems that hydrogen isn’t all it’s cracked up to be in reducing emissions. When I can listen to a lucid explanation on the ABC, why can’t the minister?

We have already wasted Half a Billion $s on CCS. How much more good money after bad will we waste on this ScottMorrisonMP AngusTaylorMP ? Especially as there are lots of FUTURE industries to invest in, not the dying FossilFuel Past? auspol

Corrupt

As a lay person based on the analasis in this ABC report renewables should be the driver of our attack against climate change/warming not underground/sea sequestration which is site specific & should be supplementary to renewables.The question is are Austruans being conned.

Angus if you want carbon capture just wear underpants.

full of shite this bloke

Bloke thinks he’s intelligent then says we need to develop a tech to ensure fossil fuel survives, yet the tech for renewables exists already. CCS would require capacity & logistics bigger than oil industry & hasn’t worked anyway at scale required. Pie in the sky, lunacy, waste.

Can we sort this first and come to the CCS nonsense later?

Planting trees has a similar effect.

he and his briotehr need to give back the gigaliters they stole from the murry, the millions of $$$$ they stole from taxpayers and also return the fish they killed in the process of their thefts angushoribilus angustaylor MurryDarling LNPfail

Q: What difference would it make to the climate if we “Australia” reduced our total emission “C02” Australia Chief Scientist: Virtually nothing Bjorn Lomborg about 1/50 of a degree Hmm Virtually nothing 2020 CSIRO, NO Proof C02 causes Global Worming

There must be a dollar in it for him otherwise he wouldn't be interested.

A parasite parading as a politician with zero credibility! Have you seen any lately?

CCS is a LIE. Every ton of C burned generates almost FOUR tons of CO2. No power system can be viable if IT must pay for the permanent interment of waste FOUR times as big as the initial extraction. CCS is a plan to bury billions of taxpayer dollars.

at least he is trying to get energy prices down something renewables will never do

Sounds like the Cayman Islands National Bank is about to get a large deposit.

Angus Taylor a Trouble Politician with a checkered past Would take whatever he says with a grain of salt .

How is this guy still in Parliament. He should be in jail for the water fraud, the grass debacle, the forgery and all his other corrupt activities.

carbon capture is a total crap Howard had funded research fr 2000 it is a fantasy 'gas led recovery' is a total crap too Like the water buyback swindle

Every Liberal & National are rotten to the core

Angus Taylor has zero credibilty.

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