How the first US integrated regional CCS demonstration project became a reality

Gerald R. Hill, Kimberly A. Sams, Traci Rodosta and Bruce Brown detail the extraordinary labyrinth of technical, regulatory, environmental, and other requirements which had to be negotiated on the way to establishing the first regional integrated carbon sequestration demonstration project in the US, designed to provide a better understanding of the challenges that power plant capture can present to the emerging field of geologic CO2 storage.