He and his office are looking at "technological solutions" – bright new ideas in solar thermal, or battery or carbon storage technology that might fill the policy void.
Forests clean our air, enhance water security, support critical biodiversity and serve as the world's oldest and most proven carbon storage technology.
An internal Energy Department report had warned that cancelling the project would set back the advance of carbon-storage technology by "at least 10 years".
An official of the island's Bureau of Minerals and Petroleum has specified that any companies extracting hydrocarbons in the neighbourhood must also develop and use carbon-storage technology.
Gas is relatively clean, but it is expensive and its main supplier, Russia, has alarmed European countries by periodically choking off oil and gas supplies to those (such as Ukraine and Belarus) that fall out of favour.The great temptation is therefore to revert to coal, which is cheap, abundant in Germany and, at least until carbon-storage technology is ready, bad for global warming.
Student-run event spans energy policy, carbon pricing, storage technologies, and the rise of renewables.
The sensible energy and climate change plan for the UK, MacKay said, was for the country to focus on nuclear power and carbon capture storage technology, which traps the carbon dioxide from fossil fuel burning.
From the environmental perspective, the application of carbon capture and storage technologies would effectively negate carbon dioxide emissions, resulting in a stabilisation of manmade contributions.
Richard Branson's "carbon war room" is backing carbon capture and storage technologies.
