The US Department of Energy announced in July the selection of ten projects aimed at developing advanced technologies for capturing CO2 from coal combustion. The projects, valued at up to US$67 million over three years, focus on reducing the energy and efficiency penalties associated with applying currently available carbon capture and storage (CCS) technologies to existing and new power plants.

Nathan Vanderklippe from the Globe and Mail interviewed Jim Carter, the former president of oil sands miner Syncrude Canada Ltd, about Alberta's CCS plans.

French supermajor Total inaugurated a carbon capture facility in the south of France that could remove more than 120,000 tons of greenhouse gas emissions. Total hailed its $85.6 million end-to-end carbon capture, transportation and storage demonstration facility in Lacq as Europe's first such project.

Jim Letourneau's "Big Picture Speculator" blog. The blog gives his opinion on Alberta's CCS funding for Enhanced Oil Recovery.

Clean energy solutions provider Rentech has signed a memorandum of understanding with 13 domestic and international passenger and cargo carriers that is intended to serve as a framework for a future definitive supply agreement for certified jet fuel from Rentech's proposed synthetic fuels and power facility in Adams County, Mississippi (Natchez Project).