Greenwire: Pipeline would carry Midwest CO2 to Gulf Coast's oil fields

[OKIsItJustMe]

http://www.eenews.net/public/Greenwire/2009/10/13/6

Pipeline would carry Midwest CO2 to Gulf Coast's oil fields

(Greenwire, 10/13/2009)
Phil Taylor, E&E reporter

Midwestern states are working with energy companies to overcome one of the biggest obstacles to carbon capture and storage: finding ways to transport the gas from its industrial source to its final resting place.

The Midwestern Governors Association last week announced a goal to site and permit by 2012 at least one interstate pipeline to ferry global warming pollution from the region's power plants to suitable underground storage sites.

The goal was among several laid out in the Midwestern Energy Infrastructure Accord aiming to transform the region's coal-rich states into hubs for CCS technology (Greenwire, Oct. 7).

An early step in the accord involves the development of a pipeline that would move carbon dioxide from capture-ready coal plants in Indiana, Illinois and Kentucky to the Gulf Coast for use in enhanced oil recovery (EOR).

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[kestrel91316]

1. Playing a silly game by trying to HIDE the CO2 underground will

not save our bacon. A gas stored underground is still a gas available to leak upward.

[Dogmudgeon]

2. How will they pressurize it?

Pressurization requires money, and you can be certain that using solar and wind power will be laughed out of the boardroom.

Then they'll attach 5 turbines and spend millions to show how Green they are.

And it's a shame. Intermittent energy sources are ideal for this kind of use.

Of course, there's the small issue that carbon dioxide sequestration has been a painful failure so far.

--d!