Critique of Ambre Energy Felton Initial Advice Statement Compared with Alternatives Draft Not for Distribution

The Felton “clean coal” proposal by Ambre Energy is premised on providing a usefulstarting point for developing carbon capture and storage technology for coal, with anadditional aspect of producing dimethyl ether (DME) as a diesel substitute. The latteraspect of the proposal, while containing claims of improved environmental outcomesrelative to conventional diesel, is an add-on to reduce the unattractive economics ofcarbon capture and storage (CCS) in a coal-fired power plant.The IAS fails to present a case for an alternative to carbon emissions, and does notaddress the combined problems of agriculture facing difficult times as energy becomesexpensive, and climate change makes future weather patterns uncertain.The proposal fails to take into account alternatives that would not compromise agri-cultural output, nor does it contain any proposal to scale up CCS even to the volumeof CO