Real Estate & Property Law

Greenhouse Gas Burial

By Alan Ackerman

Starpress.com

But if the state tries to deploy a new technology (carbon dioxide sequestration) in Randolph County to combat global warming, it will be met with strong resistance.

After all, many citizens fear that burying vast amounts of "CO2 waste" deep in the ground is like sitting on an atomic bomb that could result in man-made earthquakes, asphyxiation and contamination of ground water.

The linked article covers issues related to CO2 sequestration.  Interestingly, the article includes the discussion of S. Julio Friedman of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California, noting the positive aspects and the safety of CO2 sequestration.  This is one of the few balanced articles on this subject and well worth reading.

Full post as published by National Eminent Domain Blog on March 18, 2010 (boomark / email).