This is well-meaning, but I have qualms about it. Things like asteroid strikes and earthquakes are bound to strike eventually. If a substantial amount of the gas were freed at the same time by something like this, it could be disastrous.
https://governorswindenergycoalition.org/company-plans-largest-u-s-co2-storage-project/
By Carlos Anchondo, E&E News reporter • Posted: Wednesday, October 14, 2020
Developers announced plans yesterday to build and operate a regional carbon capture hub near industrial producers in southwest Louisiana that they say will be the country’s “premier carbon sequestration project.”
The company, Gulf Coast Sequestration (GCS), said it has submitted initial filings to EPA to secure permits for carbon dioxide injection wells used for long-term underground storage of the gas. The project has the capacity to store up to 2.7 million tons of CO2 per year, the company said.
The planned storage capacity of the project is nearly three times bigger than that of the largest operating carbon capture and storage facility in the United States with geological storage in saline rock formations, according to the Global CCS Institute. That facility — the Illinois Industrial CCS project — stores 1 million tons of CO2 annually, the think tank said.
Benjamin Heard, principal at GCS, said the project is ideally positioned to accept captured CO2 from industrial facilities in southeast Texas and southwest Louisiana — the heart of the U.S. energy sector.
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