Carbon injected underground now leaking, Saskatchewan farmer's study says

The Canadian Press ^ | 01/11/2011 10:22 AM | Bob Weber, The Canadian Press

[Cobra64]

Gee who could have guessed that pumping a gas undergone might eventually lead to it coming out of the ground?

And I thought the US had the monopoly on idiots.

[Army Air Corps]

That’s not pond scum, that is “a healthy organic nutrient slurry”. :-)

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

I remember seeing that movie back in the 1960s!

[sportutegrl]

Does this mean that Canada can have it’s own perrier bottling plant?

[ElkGroveDan]

A century from now people will look back on our entire culture and ask how we could be so silly as to think we had the power to change the weather.

Trying to inject CO2 into the ground is going to be laughed at the way we now laugh at people 150 years ago who hired rain dancers.

[SeeSac]

Plants absorb it, die, become limestone

Wrong cycle.

[Iron Munro]

[CedarDave]

"The survey also demonstrates that the overlying thick cap rock of anhydrite over the Weyburn reservoir is not an impermeable barrier to the upward movement of light hydrocarbons and CO2 as is generally thought."

So true. Such hard rock is most always fractured with pathways for the gas to escape.

Such seemingly simple solutions are in fact complex, costly, and result in unexpected and unintended consequences. Using CO2 for enhancement of crude oil recovery is beneficial, especially if the alternative is injection of fresh water. It is used down here in the oil patch for just that reason. But injection only for capture and storage will be shown that it is not necessary to do this in the first place.

[rightwingcrazy]

Paving the Road to Perdition, I see.

[gleeaikin]

Actually I believe soda companies already use some of it that way.

[Brucifer]

This is all clearly Bush’s fault.

[marron]

One part Rube Goldberg to two parts scam.

[JimRed]

Who did NOT see this coming?

Those who created the problem.

[T-Bird45]

That’s not pond scum, that is “a healthy organic nutrient slurry”. :-)

How about "potential biomass source for ethanol or bio-diesel fuels"???? :-)

[Razzz42]

Expensive ‘pop’

Oh well, back to the drawing board.

[dead]

several colours of scum

Great name for a band.

[Brucifer]

You’re absolutely right. I have a degree in Medieval Literature. When people ask me if the medieval world had some crazy ideas I say yes. But those ideas weren’t any crazier than many of the ideas that the modern world has.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Outstanding !!!

ROFL!

[Army Air Corps]

With the right marketing, it could sell. “Sparkling mineral water from our farm to you...”

[beezdotcom]

For that matter, the Carbon-Injected Underground would also be a good band name.