Spreading the News on Carbon Capture and Storage: A State-Level Comparison of US Media

Feldpausch-Parker, Andrea M.; Ragland, Chara J.; Melnick, Leah L.; Chaudhry, Rumika; Hall, Damon M.; Peterson, Tarla Rai; Stephens, Jennie C.; Wilson, Elizabeth J.

doi:10.1080/17524032.2013.807859

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“…Statements about the economic benefits described the job creation potential of CCS, with claims such as "It will pave the path to clean development of our vast coal reserves-an industry that will bring new jobs and positive growth to Montana" [30] being commonplace. When economic risks were mentioned, the statements focused on the financial risks that CCS development posed to industry or U.S tax payers should the projects fail [26]. Notably, the economic function system was mentioned less often in CCS articles than it was in the biomass articles, despite both having similar economic development benefits and potential.…”

Section: Ccs Function Systems Reportingmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…CCS media data stemmed from a previously published study by Feldpausch-Parker et al [26]. In this study news media coverage of CCS technologies was analyzed at the state level in four states spanning the U.S. (Massachusetts, Minnesota, Montana and Texas) to examine media perceptions of the technologies in states with different energy histories and efforts toward CCS development.…”

Section: Ccs Data Collection and Codingmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Newspapers in Montana and Massachusetts reported on political/legal matters most frequently (34% of articles), with Texas (31%) and Minnesota (27%) exhibiting slightly less coverage. Articles that mentioned the political/legal function system gave more attention to benefits than they did to risks and focused on one of two issues: state-level attempts to avoid national legislation regulating carbon through the development of state-level standards, and the challenges that attend CCS siting and permitting processes ( [26]; Figure 1). In general, political/legal statements described the importance of diversifying state level energy portfolios and transitioning to renewable energy futures that were based on long-term goals.…”

Section: Ccs Function Systems Reportingmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Finally, the health/safety and aesthetic function systems received little to no media coverage in any of the four states. When health/safety was mentioned in an article, the focus was on either the potential for CCS to improve air quality or concerns about the possibility of toxic chemical releases from plant failures and related impacts on property rights [26]. …”

Section: Ccs Function Systems Reportingmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The empirical structure of SPEED allows for the measurement of media coverage of these social systems to determine emphasis placed on these systems during various stages of energy technology deployment. To date, this framework has been used to conduct media analyses on emergent and establishing energy technologies such as wind [24,25] and CCS [26]. In later writings, Luhmann even includes the mass media as a social system unto itself because of its impact on the construction of reality [27].…”

Section: Speed Frameworkmentioning

confidence: 99%

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News Media Analysis of Carbon Capture and Storage and Biomass: Perceptions and Possibilities

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Abstract:In the US, carbon capture and storage (CCS) has received most of its attention when coupled with the fossil fuel industry as a mitigation strategy for climate change. CCS, which is constituted as a broad suite of capture and sequestration technologies and techniques, does not preclude coupling with other energy industries such as bioenergy (bioenergy and CCS or BECCS). In this paper, we examined news media coverage of CCS and biomass individually in locations throughout the US where these technologies are being explored to determine how they are perceived and what possibilities lay in their coupling for climate change mitigation. From our analyses, we found that individually, both CCS and biomass are perceived generally as beneficial for energy development by the news media, though they are not often mentioned in combination. Combined references do, however, speak to their value for climate change mitigation and as an alternative to fossil fuels.

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Section: Ccs Function Systems Reportingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Ccs Data Collection and Codingmentioning

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Section: Ccs Function Systems Reportingmentioning

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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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Media Framing of Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation

Swain¹

2021

Handbook of Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation

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Spreading the News on Carbon Capture and Storage: A State-Level Comparison of US Media

Cited by 39 publications

References 36 publications

News Media Analysis of Carbon Capture and Storage and Biomass: Perceptions and Possibilities

News Media Analysis of Carbon Capture and Storage and Biomass: Perceptions and Possibilities

Carbon Capture and Storage in the Finnish Print Media

Media Framing of Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation

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