Push to build more CO2 pipelines, storage in Illinois raises alarms
No one has ever stored as much CO2 underground as Navigator proposes. While the risks are theoretically low, opponents say the stakes are high.
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No one has ever stored as much CO2 underground as Navigator proposes. While the risks are theoretically low, opponents say the stakes are high.
For years, the carbon dioxide pipeline snaked through the fields and forests of Yazoo County, Mississippi, going largely unnoticed. But that changed forever on a winter evening in 2020. Under pressure from heavy rains and a landslide, the pipeline split in two, roaring like a jet engine, carving a 40-foot crater into the ground, and sending an invisible cloud of dangerous carbon dioxide vapor ...
“It’s like the Wild Wild West. It’s whatever (the pipeline companies) say is going to go,” said one environmental leader.
No one has ever stored as much CO2 underground as Navigator proposes. While the risks are theoretically low, opponents say the stakes are high.