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The following URL(treehugger) though not the original one, refers to the Houston sequestration project.

http://www.treehugger.com/files/2006/07/carbon_sequestration2.php

http://global-warming.accuweather.com/2007/08/can_nations_bury_their_carbon_1.html#comments

http://www.energybulletin.net/newswire.php?id=5220

It now appears that the EU Energy Commissioner has recently given a tick to the ongoing Sleipner project for CO2 sequestration in the North Sea. The carbon dioxide appears to have remained stable, however, due to limited data and insufficient experience in monitoring CCS projects, there is not yet any guarantee for the ocean sea-beds long-term potential to contain the CO2.

Some experts express concern over a possibility of very large volumes of CO2 reaching the ocean surface and also express concern over the potential impact on marine organisms due to acidification.

Capture, storage and transport of CO2 are also energy intensive.

Apparently the projects, proposed or functioning, are not yet commercialy viable and continue to operate with government support.

And while our Australian government is committing hundreds of millions of dollars in grants to pollutant industries for sequestration projects and "clean" coal research, there appears to be little in comparison pledged towards renewable energies, with the exception of the $75m for the Victorian solar power plant.

I trust the geo-sequestrations and "clean" coal projects work for it's obvious, that in the event of a catastrophe, we won't have renewable energies to fall back on.

In any event - coal or nuclear, Hiroshima John is determined to endow us with a more radioactive planet.

I thought the Indian deal was questionable. The Russia deal is just a step too far. And lets face it - how much influence do we really have once the sale has gone through.

As others noted... there's no hurry. If uranium will sell ok now - I'm sure it'll have a higher price in the future.

Lets stick to stable democracies. Democracies that ideally have no nuclear weapons or which are participating in an arms reduction.

Lyn Allison's article is spot on. My heart sinks to hear that Australia is to sell uranium to Russia. This is unbelievable. As I understand it, uranium sources will be depleted in a few years, so once it's all dug up, what then? There is no solution to disposing of the waste. I would dearly love to see an even stronger push for the development of geothermal energy from hot fractured rock. Keep uranium in the ground where it belongs. Are you listening Labor?