The best soundbite for September in the world of CCUS was ‘busy and widespread’, with newsworthy developments from the Western world, from Asia, India and Brazil. Once again, the region more obvious by its absence in headlines was the US – somewhat in contrast to progress north of the border. In fact, September had quite a Canadian flavor, helped by policy news re fast-tracking CCUS and funding in BC, and the well-attended (and heavily LinkedIn-ed) Carbon Capture Canada in Edmonton (great to see a strong Svante profile there). Other active regions included the UK, where two more projects (Padeswood cement and Protos waste-to-energy) moved forward with funding and the Government published its greenhouse gas removals model, the Nordics (as per usual) where Finland and Norway agreed to cooperate with CCS (one has CO2 stores under development, one needs a route to store), and India where the Government talked about large carbon capture incentives to help decarbonise coal-fired power. We also noted the phrases ‘world’s largest’ and ‘China’ in the same sentence, with a successful startup at the 1.5Mtpa CO2 Huaneng Gansu Zhengning coal-fired power plant. In other industry-specific news, waste-to-energy took a few more (pilot-size) steps in Europe, including at KEZO’s plant near Zurich (using CATACARB’s HPC technology on license to Sulzer), and in the ever-cautious Finnish pulp & paper world, Metsä moved ahead with its CO2 capture trial at its Rauma pulp mill (based on a generic solvent capture tech from Andritz).