Age: Our reliance on coal puts carbon capture into a different light. IT’S easy to be sceptical about efforts to clean up Australia’s coal industry. Clean coal is an oxymoron; even its advocates shy away from the term. Capturing and storing greenhouse gases is eminently worse than forgoing the emissions in the first place. Safely trapped carbon dioxide is still pollution, and there’s plenty of doubt about the safety part. Industry has hardly put its money where its mouth is. …