And if it is buried in the ground, it subject to suddenly being released someday, eg., by an asteroid hit.https://www.sciencenews.org/article/greenhouse-gas-injections-may-unleash-earthquakes
by Beth Mole
3:40pm, November 4, 2013
Pumping carbon dioxide into the bowels of the Earth seems like an appealing way to ditch the greenhouse gas. But such injections could trigger earthquakes, geophysicists report November 4 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Petroleum companies already use CO2 injections to flush out underground oil. Now researchers have found that such gas injections into an oil field in northwestern Texas sparked dozens of small earthquakes.
“It’s inconceivable that the injection wells weren’t contributing to these earthquakes,” says study coauthor Cliff Frohlich of the University of Texas at Austin. The study provides some of the first evidence that gas injections may lead to earthquakes.
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