Pipeline Plan Would Bury CO2 Under the Ocean off New Jersey. By Michael Miller, Atlantic City Press, 10/17/10. “An energy company wants to pump carbon dioxide under the ocean floor 70 miles off the New Jersey coast... SCS Energy LLC of Concord, Mass., wants to build a new coal-fired power plant on a former industrial site in Linden in Union County, near Staten Island. The company plans to separate carbon dioxide from the coal and pump the liquefied gas 138 miles away to a drilling platform off Atlantic City, where it conceivably could remain buried forever beneath the Atlantic Ocean…
“Environmentalists and some local residents say the [carbon capture and storage] technology is unproven and dangerous… SCS has two wells about 70 miles east of Atlantic City that would pump carbon dioxide 1.5 miles below the ocean floor, displacing seawater under multiple layers of shale and sandstone... Energy companies in the 1970s closely studied the geology of the continental shelf off Atlantic City when they were looking unsuccessfully for oil. Instead, Mascaro said, they drilled through layers of rock and sediment ‘perfect’ for capturing carbon dioxide.”
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