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The benefits of treating CO₂ as a productive feedstock are being realised by a group of companies brought together by Environment Business Australia under the banner of the Bio-CCS Group.

A number of projects involving a portfolio of technologies and changed management practices are being set up around Australia with the following benefits:

• Helping to reduce concentrations of atmospheric CO₂
• Capture of CO₂ from coal-fired power plants using rapidly growing strains of native algae
• Production of biodiesel, animal meal and soil fertiliser
• Improved agricultural productivity as soil carbon levels are rebuilt

The processes used are based on photosynthesis and biomimicry. They help reduce reliance on synthetic chemical fertilisers while rebuilding soil structure, biota and productivity. The biofuels from algae do not compete with the foodchain and as they are grown on recycled water they do not deplete soil minerals and nutrients.

Each step in the Bio-CCS process can be scaled up and replicated in many countries as well as Australia. And importantly all approaches are designed to be commercially viable.

Overview

Towards Co₂ emission cuts of 25 percent by 2020, affordable mitigation projects ready today for a cleaner tomorrow (1.5MB)

An introduction to the scale of the Bio-CCS concept and some of the key technologies

Key documents

• Founding members of the Bio-CCS Group: List of the founding members, contact details and a brief description.
  Document (26KB)



• Brown coal application to carry natural fertilisers and rebuild soil structure
  Document (2.7MB)
  Ignite Energy website: www.environmentbusiness.com.au/mp-ignite.asp



• Improved rangeland management to allow deep rooted grasses and natural vegetation to regrow
  Document (1.7MB)
  Soil Carbon Australia website: www.soilcarbon.com.au



• Bamboo phytoliths: Global Change Biology - selection of 'plantstone' crops that lock carbon in silica granules (phytoliths) inside plants
  Document (1MB)
  Plantstone website: www.plantstone.com.au



• Native species forestry replanting
  New Forests website: www.newforests.com.au
  CO₂ Australia website: www.co2australia.com.au



• Algal synthesis of CO₂ using native strains of micro-algae
  MBD Energy website: www.mbdenergy.com



• Ocean sequestration of CO₂
  Ocean Nourishment Corporation website: www.oceannourishment.com



• Biogas
  Spectrum website: www.srela.com.au

Background information

• Visit some biologic farmers
  Biological Farming Systems Soil Carbon Tour (BFSSCT) (3.4MB)



• Background to building soil carbon
  - Building Soil Organic Carbon using Biological Farming Systems in Australia's more Intensive Agricultural Regions (216KB)
  - Soil carbon - biosequestration of CO₂ (140KB)



• Introduction to biologic farming
  BioLogic farming systems (2.5MB)



• Use of brown coal to rebuild soil: a speech by Dr John White
  Challenges and opportunities for industry and government in achieving energy security - greening brown coal (75KB)



• Soil carbon inquiry: intervention by Dr John White
  Transcript from the Commonwealth of Australia House of Representatives Standing Committee on Primary Industries and Resources, Reference: Assisiting Australian farmers to adapt to climate change (1MB)



• Environment and Natural Resources Committee Inquiry into soil sequestration of carbon in Victoria: EBA submission
  Environment Business Australia submission to the Environment and Natural Resources Committee Inquiry into soil sequestration of carbon in Victoria (www.parliament.vic.gov.au)