Posted on 08/21/2010 7:11:18 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
One German Town's Fight against CO2 Capture Technology
By Jessica Donath in Beeskow, Germany
The next Chernobyl? A death blow to tourism? Poisoned drinking water? The residents of Beeskow, Germany worry that a planned CO2 storage facility under their town could end in disaster and are fighting the project. Europe, though, hopes the technology will drastically reduce emissions.
The signs are everywhere -- on church towers, on fences surrounding private homes and in storefronts. At first glance, the scenes evoke the large-scale protests against nuclear power that rattled Germany in the 1970s and 1980s. The resemblance is no accident. Residents in the quiet town of Beeskow in the eastern German state of Brandenburg are gearing up for a fight. They fear the pollutants that are about to be pumped beneath their homes could become the next Chernobyl.
"A field trial under our community is not acceptable," says Beeskow Mayor Frank Steffen.
The town's residents are upset about plans by a German division of Swedish energy giant Vattenfall to build a carbon dioxide (CO2) storage facility in a saline aquifer far beneath Beeskow's cobblestone roads. The site is one of a handful across Europe where companies and governments want to test a process known as carbon capture and storage (CCS), a technology that proponents say will massively reduce CO2 emissions from coal-fired power plants. Instead of belching the emissions into the sky, CCS technology would capture, liquefy and then pump the CO2 into underground storage sites.
(Excerpt) Read more at spiegel.de ...
Pure C02 should be refiltered through all UN facilities before use.
Ha! The truth condensed into four words. Original?
You are dissing my home area! I remember when Farley was a living, thriving town and began to die after they closed the school.
Not to diss your home area, but, as in Radiation Safety:
Distance = Safety.
How close is the nearest Bravo Dome CO2 drilling site from the epicenter of Farley, NM?
If a CO2 cloud blanketed a 20 mile radius extending from the drilling site at Bravo Dome nearest to Farley, NM, how many humans would be found inside that 20 mile radius?
The Germans have always loved gassing people!
Damn NIMBY’s. The coal industry would never endanger peoples’ lives.
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