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The specialists are more scared than the public. >> We could see a third or up to a third of the species wiped out. The impacts on people could be equally as catastrophic, particularly on the developing countries. We will see massive changes in weather patterns, more extreme floods, storms, droughts all over the world, affecting millions of people. >> The principal cause of climate change is the increase in carbon dioxide concentrations in the atmosphere. And the principal cause of that is the burning of fossil fuels. If we were to burn all the world's known [ unk ] and fossil fuels, the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere got enormously-- and we would be committed to dangerous climate change. And the sad fact is that that is exactly where the world is heading. >> How do we reduce the amount of carbon dioxide that we're putting into the atmosphere? Either burn less coal, oil and gas, just by what's called conservation or efficiency. Then, you have renewables, there's nuclear power. And then, can't we add something to the fossil fuel system so that the carbon dioxide doesn't go to the atmosphere. >> CCS is Carbon Capture and Storage. And it's where you take a power station or an industrial plant that produces a lot of carbon dioxide, you separate out the CO2. You then transport it and inject it deep underground. >> Say, you have a smoke stack coming out of a power plant or a chemical factory or q refinery. And the idea is that you separate the carbon dioxide from the other gases that are coming out. And the way we do that is we take basically liquid, that is really good at absorbing carbon dioxide. And then, you can put it in the pipelines, and then you could transport it. And then, finally, you go to a place where you've got a well, and that you then start to pump it underground, and that you put it into a formation that is a porous rock. >> What I have here is a piece of rock, a piece of sandstone rock. We will store the CO2 about a kilometer underground in rock like this. We're not storing CO2 in vast cabins, from which the CO2 might suddenly catastrophically escape. >> So, we're going to see for the few-- next few decades, at least, quite a demand for natural gas, for oil for transport, and even for coal. And I think that's where CCS comes into its own. It is the one technology that officers hope of reducing the emissions from power stations, for example-- for the next few decades, as a bridging solution until the world energy system really does have time to move towards a lower carbon long- term future. This sounds easy, and it can all be done, but it is quite expensive. And those involved have to make big capital investments. >> At the mine, we're having a phony debate around whether this technology will work, whether this technology won't work. Let's actually get it on the ground, see if it does work. And then, we'll be up-- all in a position to make a better judgment about what investments we need to make. >> The project is actually the largest R & D project anywhere in the world underway at the moment in carbon dioxide. The other way you'll assure people is to make sure the whole project is open. You should [ unk ] doing it behind high walls and in dark spaces, you know. You've really got to tell people what's actually happening and giving that opportunity to look around. >> I listen to them and their concerns, and bring them to the organization. And basically, we work on the likes of finding solutions as a whole, a group. >> I was-- I felt like [ unk ] early on as to, you know, how it's gonna fix our farm and the local community, you know, in negative and positive ways. >> What we do is we try to explain to them that it's being actually injected into a depleted gas field. It has a large seal, a large rock seal on top. And so, if we could find what [ unk ] the gas has been down there for thousands and thousands of years and it hasn't come up, so we expect that the CO2 won't be coming up, as well. >> With my two sons, we discussed it. And we felt that everything has got to start, and we could be involved in something that is really worthwhile. >> As further it went along, I guess, the more comfortable I felt with that. >> We have a defined project, part of the pilot test to drill two wells to take purified CO2, inject it in the ground, and monitor the physical changes that that CO2 undergoes. I have a degree in geology. And after that initial information was presented, I went out and did my own research, con-- first confirmed the science behind it. Really started drilling down and looking at what the geology of this area, and really developed a good sense for why Shell would have had an interest in this area. >> This is a real unknown for people. It's a new technology. It hasn't been proven, and there's very little awareness. So, people are bound to be scared and concerned about it. >> The biggest fear is that carbon dioxide will leak out. And actually, I think that's one of the easier questions to answer because the probability that that could happen is slim to none. CO2 is everywhere in the air. It's essential to all living things, it's part of our basic metabolic system. So, from that perspective, is it poisonous one, though? Of course not because it's everywhere around. On the other hand, if you have very concentrated carbon dioxide, say, 100 percent carbon dioxide or 50 percent carbon dioxide, it is hazardous. And that's the purpose of monitoring. That's why, if you're injecting carbon dioxide, you have a carbon dioxide monitoring system at the top of your well. After- site selection, I think monitoring is the second most important thing that we need to do. >> I see no definite risk associated, you know, with the release or damage, either to the surface, soils, or groundwater. The separation and the type of geology that we're talking about here will absolutely protect this property for thousands and thousands of years. >> For too long, we've had debates and reports about carbon capture and storage. We've seen some successes in the oil and the gas industry, but we have yet to see it at scale in the pad generation sector. That's the key challenge. And this is where we need industry and government and the broader communities. We're working together to fast- track the deployment at commercial scale of these technologies. >> We've actually given investment sanction to two projects-- one in Norway in partnership with the government there and with Statoil, a Norwegian oil company, which will capture CO2 from a power station; and one in Australia where, together with Chevron and Exxon we'll be putting together the world's largest CCS scheme to store more than 3 million tons a year of CO2 underground off- shore Australia. >> Carbon Capture and Storage is absolutely essential. 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