Here's a news item that will be running in tomorrow's paper about a seminar on carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) being held at Cal State Wednesday. 

Kern is expected to be a major player in the development of this technology, which is considered to be one of the key means of reducing worldwide greenhouse gas emissions. We have at  two CCS projects planned for this area right now.

An emerging technology to capture carbon emissions and store them in underground rock formations as a way to combat global warming will be the topic of a seminar held at Cal State Bakersfield on Wednesday.

Geoffrey D. Thyne, a research scientist at the University of Wyoming’s Enhanced Oil Recovery Institute, will give a talk on the economic, scientific and engineering challenges of carbon sequestration starting at 4 p.m. in Science Building III, room 108.

The talk will address the environmental and financial aspects of this new technology, as well as how it can benefit from enhanced oil recovery techniques already in use by the petroleum industry.

The event is free and open to the public.