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In April 2009, Australian Prime Minister [[Kevin Rudd]] announced the formation of the International Advisory Panel of the Global Carbon Capture and Storage Institute which he stated would "provide broad strategic guidance to the Institute and work globally to enhance its international reputation and networks." Rudd announced that the former the former President of the World Bank, [[James D. Wolfensohn]], had been appointed as Chair of the International Advisory Panel of the Institute. The first meeting of the panel is scheduled for late April 2009 but the other members of the panel have not been announced.<ref name="IAP"/>
==Global Capture awards $7.7 million for US carbon capture plant==
In October 2010, Global Carbon Capture and Storage Institute announced that [[Tenaska]] will receive $7.7 million in grant money to be used for an engineering design study of carbon capture technology in its proposed [[Trailblazer Energy Center]] east of Sweetwater, Texas. The grant “provides international recognition of the really pioneering role that Trailblazer is expected to play to reduce carbon emissions,” said Helen Manroe, Tenaska’s manager of development.<ref name="ja">Jaime Adame, [http://www.reporternews.com/news/2010/oct/12/tenaska-awarded-77-million-grant-money/ "Tenaska awarded $7.7 million in grant money"] Reporter News, Oct. 12, 2010.</ref>
Tenaska’s Trailblazer is one of six projects to receive funding from the institute in awards. The only other American project to receive funding is another Tenaska effort, a plan still in its early stages to retrofit with carbon capture technology a coal-fired power plant in Louisiana.<ref name="ja"/>
==Foundation Members==
