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Hon Bill Marmion MLA BE MBA, Minister for Mines and Petroleum

Bill Marmion is currently the Western Australian Minister for Mines and Petroleum and Housing. As Minister for Mines he is committed to a stable regulatory environment to ensure Western Australia remains a destination of choice for the resource sector. He is driving legislation to bring down the cost of doing business in Western Australia.Read more

Carbon Dioxide Irrigation: Using CO2 to Make the Desert Bloom

Tim Kruger of the University of Oxford gave the talk "Carbon Dioxide Irrigation: Using CO2 to Make the Desert Bloom" at the RCN-CCUS Annual Meeting and Workshop. Here he discusses his research of a novel method for growing plants that dramatically minimizes water use and consumes CO2.

Biological Design of Lemnaceae aquatic plants for alkane and biodiesel production

Rob Martienssen of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory explains the potential of lemnaceae, or duckweed, as a biofuel crop, and discusses further research and collaborations through which lemnaecae can play a role in closing the carbon cycle.

Shelley Welton on CCUS from a lawyer's point of view at the RCN-CCUS Annual Meeting

Shelley Welton of Columbia Law School discusses CCUS from a lawyer's perspective and talks about the panel at which she was the moderator: Regulatory Developments, Costs and Risk Assessment.

Shelley Welton on CCUS from a lawyer's point of view at the RCN-CCUS Annual Meeting

Shelley Welton of Columbia Law School discusses CCUS from a lawyer's perspective and talks about the panel at which she was the moderator: Regulatory Developments, Costs and Risk Assessment.

Closing the Carbon Cycle with Air Capture

Mogens Mogensen of the Technical University of Denmark introduced the RCN-CCUS Workshop on April 14. Here he talks about the workshop's topic of taking CO2 from air to create green fuels, with a special focus on cooperation between Denmark and the US to promote broad implementation.

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