(Washington, DC) – Today, the House Committee on Science and Technology Chairman Bart Gordon (D-TN) offered the following statement on the G-8 Declaration on Environment and Climate Change, released today, which included support for 20 international carbon-capture demonstrations.
“I’m glad President Bush supports the demonstrations,” said Gordon. “With energy prices rising and international demand for energy growing, we need to move full-speed ahead with large-scale carbon capture and sequestration demonstrations. International cooperation and cost-sharing mechanisms would help advance technologies more quickly, so the U.S. and others can make well-informed energy and climate-change policy decisions.”
Last week, Chairman Gordon sent a letter to President Bush urging him to voice his support at the G-8 Summit for 20 large-scale carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) demonstrations.
“If we do not make a substantial investment to demonstrate integrated CCS technologies now, our ability to implement a comprehensive and meaningful climate change program could be seriously undermined,” said Gordon in the letter.
For more information, please visit the Committee’s website.
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