Environmentalists Divided on Sequestration. By Alister Doyle, Reuters, May 5, 2008. "Greenpeace and more than 100 other environmental groups denounced projects for burying industrial greenhouse gases on Monday, exposing splits in the green movement about whether such schemes can slow global warming... 'Carbon capture and storage is a scam. It is the ultimate coal industry pipe dream,' said Emily Rochon [of] Greenpeace International and author of [its newly released report entitled False Hope]... In a statement linked to the report, Greenpeace and allies including Friends of the Earth International said... carbon capture and storage (CCS) 'risks locking the world into an energy future that fails to save the climate'. But some other environmental groups accept carbon capture as a way to slow rising temperatures and avert more powerful storms, heat-waves, droughts, disrupted monsoon rains and raised world ocean levels. 'Carbon capture and storage is not an ideal solution, but it buys us time,' said Stephan Singer, head of the WWF's European Climate and Energy Program in Brussels. 'We believe it is part of the solution -- an emergency exit.' The U.N. Climate Panel has said CCS could be one of the main ways for slowing climate change by 2100 -- contributing a bigger share of greenhouse gas cuts than energy efficiency, a shift to renewable energy or a push for nuclear power... 'We believe that CCS will be an important tool to reduce emissions from existing coal and gas-fired power plants,' said Lars Haltbrekken [of] Friends of the Earth Norway. 'We don't support new coal-fired power plants, even with CCS.'"
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