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Wide, mid of the Kemper County power plant\u003cbr/\u003e2. Mid, moving shot at the plant by truck\u003cbr/\u003eAP Television \u003cbr/\u003eLouisville, Kentucky - 9 December 2013\u003cbr/\u003e3. Wide, close-up smoke stacks at Mills Creek Generation Station\u003cbr/\u003eAP Television \u003cbr/\u003eDe Kalb, Mississippi - 21 October 2013\u003cbr/\u003e4. SOUNDBITE: (English) Bruce Harrington, Mississippi Power:\u003cbr/\u003e\"In essence, this plant is part chemical plant, part power plant. What we do is we bring the coal in, we gasify it, make some chemical products, make electricity.  In essence, it's a coal refinery with a power plant on the back end.\"\u003cbr/\u003e5. Close-up pipes at plant\u003cbr/\u003e6. Various, pipes carrying carbon dioxide\u003cbr/\u003e7. Push in, plant\u003cbr/\u003eAP Television \u003cbr/\u003eTinsley, Mississippi - 22 October 2013\u003cbr/\u003e8. Med of the piping behind fencing where the carbon dioxide from Kemper is to enter for use in oil production at Denbury oil field\u003cbr/\u003eAP Photo \u003cbr/\u003e9. STILL Image of drilling rig near Kennedy, Texas - May 9, 2012\u003cbr/\u003eAP Television \u003cbr/\u003eWashington, DC - 17 December 2013\u003cbr/\u003e10. SOUNDBITE: (English) Kyle Ash, Greenpeace:\u003cbr/\u003e\"They've found CCS, I think, to be a very clever way of having their cake and eating it too. They can pander to the fossil fuel industry and the coal industry and they can also promote what they say is a climate solution. But the problem is, it doesn't work.\" \u003cbr/\u003eAP Photo \u003cbr/\u003e11. STILL Image of  men working on oil derrick outside of Willisburg, North Dakota - July 26, 2011\u003cbr/\u003ePool \u003cbr/\u003eWashington, DC - 25 June, 2013\u003cbr/\u003e12. Side, President Barack Obama speaking\u003cbr/\u003e13. SOUNDBITE: (English) Barack Obama, U.S. President:\u003cbr/\u003e\"What is true is that we can't just drill our way out of the energy and climate challenge that we face. That's not possible.\"\u003cbr/\u003eAP Television \u003cbr/\u003eChester, Virginia - December 6, 2013\u003cbr/\u003e14. Wide, close-up coal plant smoke stack\u003cbr/\u003eAP Television \u003cbr/\u003eWashington - 17 December 2013\u003cbr/\u003e15. SOUNDBITE: (English) Kyle Ash, Greenpeace:\u003cbr/\u003e\"The Obama administration stance seems to be that we can keep coal around forever and the myth of carbon capture and storage technology is their illustration of how that is possible. Completely the opposite of what industry and what climate deniers say about the Obama administration, they are not waging a war on coal, they are actually great PR for the coal industry.\"\u003cbr/\u003eAP Television \u003cbr/\u003eMidland, Texas - 24 September 2013\u003cbr/\u003e16. Various, oil drilling\u003cbr/\u003eAP Television \u003cbr/\u003eDe Kalb, Mississippi - 21 October 2013\u003cbr/\u003e17. Wide, Kemper County power plant\u003cbr/\u003e18. SOUNDBITE: (English) Randall Rush, Southern Company:\u003cbr/\u003e\"The key aspect of the technology is that it frees-up, makes available for power generation, a large share of the world's coal supply that was, as a practical matter, never going to be used, otherwise.\"\u003cbr/\u003e19. Close-up flag in front of plant\u003cbr/\u003e20. Various, dome that is used to store coal\u003cbr/\u003eAP Television \u003cbr/\u003eTinsley, Mississippi - 22 October 2013\u003cbr/\u003e21. Wide of Denbury sign at the site of the company's oil field, one of the oil fields to receive carbon dioxide from the new Kemper plant\u003cbr/\u003e22. 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