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Hon Bill Marmion MLA BE MBA, Minister for Mines and Petroleum

Bill Marmion is currently the Western Australian Minister for Mines and Petroleum and Housing. As Minister for Mines he is committed to a stable regulatory environment to ensure Western Australia remains a destination of choice for the resource sector. He is driving legislation to bring down the cost of doing business in Western Australia.Read more

Carbon Dioxide Irrigation: Using CO2 to Make the Desert Bloom

Tim Kruger of the University of Oxford gave the talk "Carbon Dioxide Irrigation: Using CO2 to Make the Desert Bloom" at the RCN-CCUS Annual Meeting and Workshop. Here he discusses his research of a novel method for growing plants that dramatically minimizes water use and consumes CO2.

Biological Design of Lemnaceae aquatic plants for alkane and biodiesel production

Rob Martienssen of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory explains the potential of lemnaceae, or duckweed, as a biofuel crop, and discusses further research and collaborations through which lemnaecae can play a role in closing the carbon cycle.

Shelley Welton on CCUS from a lawyer's point of view at the RCN-CCUS Annual Meeting

Shelley Welton of Columbia Law School discusses CCUS from a lawyer's perspective and talks about the panel at which she was the moderator: Regulatory Developments, Costs and Risk Assessment.

Shelley Welton on CCUS from a lawyer's point of view at the RCN-CCUS Annual Meeting

Shelley Welton of Columbia Law School discusses CCUS from a lawyer's perspective and talks about the panel at which she was the moderator: Regulatory Developments, Costs and Risk Assessment.

Closing the Carbon Cycle with Air Capture

Mogens Mogensen of the Technical University of Denmark introduced the RCN-CCUS Workshop on April 14. Here he talks about the workshop's topic of taking CO2 from air to create green fuels, with a special focus on cooperation between Denmark and the US to promote broad implementation.

Peter Eisenberger on CCUS R&D at the RCN-CCUS Annual Meeting

Columbia University's Peter Eisenberger, who moderated the Air Capture Technology panel at the RCN-CCUS Annual Meeting and Workshop, emphasizes the importance of a focus shift in CCUS R&D from avoided carbon to negative carbon.

Vikram Rao on the role of methane at RCN-CCUS Annual Meeting

Research Triangle Energy Consortium's Vikram Rao was the moderator for the Synthetic Fuels panel at the RCN-CCUS Annual Meeting and Workshop held at Columbia University. Watch him explain the role of methane in CCUS discussions.

15th International Symposium on Loss Prevention and Safety Promotion in the Process Industries

June 5, 2016 to June 8, 2016
The world forum of the process industry and international trend-setting technology summit for chemical engineering, environmental protection and biotechnology.

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