research from American and European scientists suggests that Texas — especially the waters along its coast — could be a pretty good place to store carbon from the petroleum industry. — Grist
In an effort to find new methods for storing carbon dioxide emissions, European researchers have been experimenting with injecting liquefied CO2 into the seabed surrounding former drilling sites in the North Sea. Studies so far show that leakages are minor and carbon sequestration potential is high using this approach.
“This is not a solution for climate change, but a mitigation process until we change the way we live,” Doug Connelly, a marine geologist and coordinator of the STEMM-CCS experiment, told Grist.
Even so, lawmakers in Texas, the oil-loving state that produces the nation's highest carbon emissions, are intrigued. The idea is receiving extra attention as a bipartisan carbon capture and sequestration bill gains traction in the United States Senate.
Tip Meckel, economic geologist at the University of Texas at Austin, is supportive of the the idea, he explained to Grist, “When we think of offshore carbon storage in the Gulf of Mexico, we could inject enough to significantly reduce the U.S. [carbon] emissions profile."
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Coastline is disappearing, and people are trying to talk business as usual...
“This is not a solution for climate change, but a mitigation process until we change the way we live”
And yet it will be sold as a justification for maintaining the status quo.
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