How Safe Is Carbon Storage Underground?

March 31, 2023--Written by Paul Wiseman for Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas)--With billions of dollars in government funding allocated to testing and expanding carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) projects nationwide, there are mixed reactions to the prospect of such entities coming soon to a community near you. Business leaders, especially in oil producing communities, laud the idea as both creating new jobs and preserving existing fossil fuel jobs. But environmentalists are wary of the process for the latter reason. And in some locations slotted for CCS destinations there are protests based on safety worries.