Australian, Japanese companies study deep sea carbon capture project off Australia

MELBOURNE (Reuters) - An Australian company has lined up the country's national science agency and Japanese firms to work on a plan to capture carbon dioxide, and liquefy and transport it to a site offshore Australia to be injected under the seabed.

The push comes as the Australian government recently named carbon capture and storage as one of five priority technologies it would fund in an A$18 billion (£9.9 billion) plan to help cut carbon emissions.