Carbon Capture plant opens in Biloela Queensland.

There are many Technologies already existing and being developed and improved like wind, solar tidal, fuel cells etc. for electricity generation to help combat the devastating consequences of Global Warming. Carbon Capture of Coal fired Power Stations is another very important one of these Technologies that we can add to the list.

On December 15, 2012 Australia's first pilot plant was commissioned to capture dangerous green house gas emissions at “Callide A” Power Station, Biloela Central Queensland, it is also the first in the world to be retro-fitted on to an existing power station.

The $200 million Callide Oxyfuel Project is a joint venture between Australian and Queensland Labor Governments, Japanese Government and varied Coal and Power companies from around the world such as the Australian Coal Association, Japanese firms IHI Corporation, J-Power and Mitsui, as well as Xstrata Coal and Schlumberger Limited.

It was opened by the Commonwealth Governments Minister for Energy Martin Ferguson, for more information on Carbon Capture and Storage, Global CCS Institute and Australia's CSIRO  at the moment it can reduce carbon emissions from coal-fired Power Stations by up to 90%.