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John Shimkus: “The point, as you know, CCS takes billions of dollars. There is no commercially available technology to do it.”

On the recordSeptember 17, 2013
The point, as you know, CCS takes billions of dollars. There is no commercially available technology to do it.
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John Shimkus
Republican · Illinois

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Shimkus emphasizes the high costs and lack of commercial technology for carbon capture and storage.

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