CCS in the Media: An Analysis of International Coverage

Dowd, Anne-Maree; Ashworth, Peta; Rodriguez, Michelle; Jeanneret, Talia

doi:10.1260/0958-305x.23.2-3.283

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“…Several studies have referred to some sort of agenda‐setting or framing in analyzing media attention to CCS (e.g., Ashworth & Quezada, ; Boyd & Paveglio, ; Dowd et al, ; Mander & Gough, ; Nerlich & Jaspal, ). The most common positive and negative frames are an example of analysis of social construction of CCS in media (Boyd & Paveglio, , pp.…”

Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The role of media is especially interesting in debates on controversial emerging technologies such as carbon capture and storage (CCS). Studies have more often focused on how media has framed and represented CCS in country‐specific data (Boyd & Paveglio, ; Nerlich & Jaspal, ; van Alphen, van Voorst tot Voorst, Hekkert, & Smits, ), but a comparative approach has also been applied (Buhr & Hansson, ; Dowd, Ashworth, Rodriguez, & Jeanneret, ). This technology, which is claimed to be one potential means of climate change mitigation, is operational in 12 large‐scale projects around the world (GCCSI, ), but deployment has not advanced as quickly as anticipated.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Carbon Capture and Storage in the Finnish Print Media

Kojo¹,

Innola²

2017

Risk Hazard & Crisis Pub Pol

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General media coverage is one national level contextual factor influencing communication, public perceptions, and the acceptance of technology. In this study, Finnish newspaper articles with references to carbon capture and storage (CCS) from over a nearly two decades (1996–2015) were analyzed in order to gain an understanding of the scale of news coverage and level of public debate on CCS technology. The data included a total of 282 articles from 10 different newspapers. Four temporal phases according to the frequency of references to CCS were identified. These are as follows: 1996–2003, practically no coverage; 2004–2006, rising awareness; 2007–2010, peak of print media attention; and 2011–2015, decreasing interest. The volume of data seemed to follow the international issue‐attention cycle of CCS. The long time period revealed an obvious peak in media attention but this was much lower than in some other countries. Industry, administration, and experts were the actor groups which gained most frequently media attention. Fourteen percent of the data were deemed to be negatively disposed toward CCS technology. By covering a long search period, the paper contributes the studies focused on media attention to CCS at national level. The study confirms earlier results indicating the dropping of CCS from the print media agenda after 2009.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Carbon Capture and Storage in the Finnish Print Media

Kojo¹,

Innola²

2017

Risk Hazard & Crisis Pub Pol

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“…Previous media analyses of fossil fuel based CCS projects [51,[115][116][117] have shown the majority of media coverage to be balanced or neutral in tone, lacking in technical detail, with a focus on reporting the progress of pilot and demonstration projects and funding issues. A link has been made between a general journalistic lack of understanding of the CCS technology itself and the number of questions and concerns raised [116].…”

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“…A link has been made between a general journalistic lack of understanding of the CCS technology itself and the number of questions and concerns raised [116]. This has led to journalists producing articles that are speculative in nature as to what CCS can actually achieve as opposed to providing factual and accurate descriptions of the technology's capability.…”

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Social Science Insights for the BioCCS Industry

2015

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BioCCS is a technology gaining support as a possible emissions reduction policy option to address climate change. The process entails the capture, transport and storage of carbon dioxide produced during energy production from biomass. Globally, the most optimistic energy efficiency scenarios cannot avoid an average temperature increase of +2 °C without bioCCS. Although very much at the commencement stage, bioCCS demonstration projects can provide opportunity to garner knowledge, achieve consensus and build support around the technology's properties. Yet many challenges face the bioCCS industry, including no guarantee biomass will always be from sustainable sources or potentially result in carbon stock losses. The operating environment also has no or limited policies, regulations and legal frameworks, and risk and safety concerns abound. Some state the key problem for bioCCS is cultural, lacking in a 'community of support', awareness and credibility amongst its own key stakeholders and the wider public. Therefore, the industry can benefit from the growing social science literature, drawing upon other energy and resource based industries with regard to social choice for future energy options. To this end, the following scoping review was conducted in order to ascertain gaps in existing public perception and acceptance research focusing on bioCCS.

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“…One can argue that the media might have an influence on public opinion development, or at least that what is in the media reflects what is in the public opinion. Dowd et al (2012) argue that mass media is understood to play a key role in generating public concern about particular issues and uncertainties associated with such new technologies. van Alphen et al (2007) found an increase in the amount of articles about CCS in the Dutch written media up to 2007; following this Kliest (2010) states that this increase as well as the increase they find in later years reflects the development of public opinion.…”

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Public concepts of CCS: Understanding of the Dutch general public and its reflection in the media

Best-Waldhober¹,

Brunsting²,

Paukovic³

2012

International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control

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a b s t r a c tThis study aims to increase understanding of the public view on CO 2 capture and storage (CCS) and energy innovations in the Netherlands. The study is based on the premise that to understand the public's concerns and to predict their future opinion, it is necessary to know how people arrive at their evaluations about CCS. The study described in this paper aimed to enhance insight into currently held beliefs and awareness among the general public about CCS and CO 2 as well as to investigate the role of the media as a vehicle for knowledge transfer. To meet the first aim, we interviewed 15 lay people to identify commonly held beliefs. Next, we investigated the prevalence of these beliefs by administering a questionnaire among 401 respondents. To meet the second aim, we analyzed the 430 articles mentioning CCS in all major Dutch newspapers from mid-2009 to mid-2010 and investigated respondents' media use and exposure to recent media events about CCS. The survey revealed several beliefs that were shared by a large group of respondents, some of which were factually incorrect. The media analysis did not yield evidence that national newspapers reinforce or create particular misperceptions such as found in the survey.

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CCS in the Media: An Analysis of International Coverage

Cited by 14 publications

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Carbon Capture and Storage in the Finnish Print Media

Carbon Capture and Storage in the Finnish Print Media

Social Science Insights for the BioCCS Industry

Public concepts of CCS: Understanding of the Dutch general public and its reflection in the media

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