Who did NOT see this coming?
CO2 sequestration splodes in Saskatchewan
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From the nobody could convince them it was a bad idea in the first place department
The Canadian Press ONLINE EDITION
Carbon injected underground now leaking, Saskatchewan farmers study says
By: Bob Weber, The Canadian Press
A Saskatchewan farm couple whose land lies over the worlds largest carbon capture and storage project says greenhouse gases that were supposed to have been injected permanently underground are leaking out, killing animals and sending groundwater foaming to the surface like shaken-up soda pop.
Cameron and Jane Kerr, who own nine quarter-sections of land above the Weyburn oilfield in eastern Saskatchewan, released a consultants report Tuesday that claims to link high concentrations of carbon dioxide in their soil to the 8,000 tonnes of the gas injected underground every day by energy giant Cenovus in its attempt to enhance oil recovery and fight climate change.
We knew, obviously, there was something wrong, said Jane Kerr.
Cameron Kerr, 64, said he has farmed in the area all his life and never had any problems until 2003, when he agreed to dig a gravel quarry.
That gravel was for a road to a plant owned by EnCana now Cenovus which had begun three years earlier to inject massive amounts of carbon dioxide underground to force more oil out of the aging field.
Cenovus has injected more than 13 million tonnes of the gas underground. The project has become a global hotspot for research into carbon capture and storage, a technology that many consider one of the best hopes for keeping greenhouse gases out of the atmosphere.
By 2005, Cameron Kerr had begun noticing problems in a pair of ponds which had formed at the bottom of the quarry. They developed algae blooms, clots of foam and several colours of scum red, yellow and silver-blue. Sometimes, the ponds bubbled. Small animals cats, rabbits, goats were regularly found dead a few metres away.
Then there were the explosions.
At night we could hear this sort of bang like a cannon going off, said Jane Kerr, 58. Wed go out and check the gravel pit and, in the walls, it (had) blown a hole in the side and there would be all this foaming coming out of this hole.
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It reminds me of this 1965 sci-fi movie:
h/t to WUWT reader AnonyMoose
Ping.
So it would seem that dillution and dissapation via the atmosphere is a better solution...I would have thunk!!
So it would seem that dillution and dissapation via the atmosphere is a better solution...Who would have thunk!!
Gee who could have guessed that pumping a gas undergone might eventually lead to it coming out of the ground?
gee! what a surprise!
With your entire ridiculous psridoscientific worldview.
Here is what I want to ask these envirodummies, why not inject the CO2 into green houses growing hydroponic tomatoes?
Seems more usefull than trying to inject it under ground, and if you are going to inject it under ground why put dump it into a natural gas well to help get more natural gas out of it.
Well, at least it’s getting out to where it’s really needed. Too bad it had to be run through a boondoggle first.
The exact same thing happened to me the last time I ate enchiladas
Pop Pop, Fizz Fizz, Oh what a relief it is.
Has PETA issued a statement yet? Didn't think so.
Does this mean that Canada can have it’s own perrier bottling plant?
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.
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.
Paving the Road to Perdition, I see.
This is all clearly Bush’s fault.
One part Rube Goldberg to two parts scam.