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==2010 Grants==
In October 2010, thee the Australian government has announced the first round of grants from the Global Carbon Capture and Storage Institute, with two Australian projects to share $4.3 million in funds, but the bulk of money going to projects in the US and Europe. The six winners grantees were chosen from more than 50 applications, with two projects selected from Australia, two in the US , and two in Europe (Holland and Romania). The Australian grantees included [[CarbonNet]] in the Latrobe Valley, which will receive a total of $2.5 million for work on developing a “hub concept” and on a technical framework for the measurement, monitoring and validation of stored CO2. In Queensland, the [[Callide Oxyfuel Project]] may receive $1.83 million in funding to support an injection test of CO2 into a potential storage site in various locations in south east Queensland, although terms have not been finalised.<ref>[http://www.climatespectator.com.au/commentary/green-deals-cash-and-capture "GREEN DEALS: Cash and capture"] Climate Spectator, October 12, 2010.</ref>
The US project includes research into transporting captured CO2 via existing [[natural gas]] pipelines and storing it in saline aquifers, a concept study in [[Tenaska]]'s [[Trailblazer Energy Center]] east of Sweetwater, Texas, which will receive $7.7 million in grant money. The 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">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>
