SAHABAT Alam Malaysia (SAM) would like to respond to an article that appeared in The Star on July 15, 2024, entitled “Malaysia is well positioned as a promising regional hub for CCUS”.
Carbon capture, utilisation and storage (CCUS) in the past few years especially has been strongly advocated by fossil fuel companies as a “climate solution”. Regrettably, the views expressed in the article did not touch on the poor track record of CCS deployment in the last decades, which tells a story of overpromising, under-delivering, and cost blow-outs as far as climate mitigation is concerned.
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