January 2011 (Page 12)

Getting rid of CO2 in the atmosphere by capturing it and burying it in the ground sounds like a good idea, but a Canadian farm couple whose land lies over the world’s largest carbon capture and storage project says greenhouse gases seeping up from the soil are killing animals and sending groundwater foaming to the surface like soda pop. Perhaps this shouldn’t be surprising 6,000 tons of the gas is injected underground every day by the Canadian energy company Cenovus, which (to its credit) is doing this to try to fight climate change.
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