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From The Daily Sceptic<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By\u00a0Chris Morrison<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

If carbon capture and storage (CCS) was fracking for gas, it would have been banned years ago. Both processes can cause earth tremors \u2013 equivalent to a man falling off a chair in the case of fracking, but potentially much greater with carbon capture. This is because it involves millions of tonnes of pressurised carbon dioxide being pumped into rock cavities possibly compromised by prior drilling holes. Waste water from pressurised oil and gas projects has been known to escape from degraded drill plugs causing geysers 100-foot high. Such a catastrophe on land with millions of tonnes of CO2<\/sub> waiting to escape is not a good prospect. On August 21st, 1986 the sudden high pressure release of magmatic CO2<\/sub> from the bed of Lake Nyos in Cameroon led to heavier-than-air CO2<\/sub> suffocating all living beings in the surrounding villages including 1,746 people<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

CCS divides a green movement riven with disagreements as its climate crisis grift starts to fall apart in the face of reality. Capturing CO2<\/sub> and burying it in the ground has been described by one influential green think tank as a \u201ccolossal waste of money<\/a>\u201d. Wasting taxpayers\u2019 money is not something most greens lose sleep over, but they dislike CCS because it allows a role, albeit limited, for future hydrocarbon use. As we recently reported in the Daily Sceptic<\/em>, the penny has finally dropped in the U.K. that there is no backup to a 2030 renewable energy grid except gas, so the Mad Miliband has authorised a \u00a322 billion CCS black hole. It is a colossal waste of money, but it provides a fig leaf to cover the continued use of hydrocarbons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If governments in the United States and Europe are going to pump many billions of tonnes of pressurised gas into the substrata beneath our feet heavily pockmarked with thousands of filled drill holes, it might be a good idea to look into the wisdom and safety of this course of action. Such a task cannot be left to mainstream media, although they were quick to run stories of earthquakes and tap water catching fire in the cause of demonising gas fracking (yes really, check it out<\/a>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

First some geology. Natural gas is found next to oil fields near the surface but it also accumulates at much deeper levels. It is held in place by a layer of sedimentary rock such as limestone or sandstone. In the U.S., the Permian basin runs across west Texas and south western New Mexico and its rich deposits have been drilled for over a hundred years. The area is riddled with hundreds of thousands of drill holes. Location records and safety checks on some of these holes are now non-existent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, a group of Penn State researchers observed that when CO2<\/sub> is stored underground in a process known as geological sequestration \u201cit can find multiple escape pathways<\/a> due to chemical reactions between CO2<\/sub>, water, rocks and cement from abandoned wells\u201d. There are concerns that CO2<\/sub> could leak into groundwater drinking aquifers or dissolve into saltwater deposits. As a result, the high acidity saltwater-CO2<\/sub> can dissolve certain types of rocks as well as cement casing on abandoned wells. There are fears that a plume of CO2<\/sub>-saturated brine could break free to the surface, with presumably millions of tonnes of pressurised gas looking for a chance to follow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Engineering professor Mary Kang of McGill University claims she has seen \u201ccountless instances<\/a>\u201d of plugged oil wells failing to hold. Cement is no match for earthquakes, heat and time, notes Eric Van Oort, an engineering professor at the University of Texas-Austin. \u201cYou have tectonic stresses, high temperatures \u2013 things are changing and shifting in the subsurface,\u201d he said. He was of the view that plugged holes may start leaking in the future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Current plans in the UK are to bury the CO2<\/sub> under offshore waters. Hence some of the staggering costs involved. But nowhere is safe from the forces of nature and the British Geological Survey recently said that CCS needed to be \u201cvigorously monitored<\/a>\u201d to provide an assurance of long-term storage integrity. That would be vigorously monitored for the thousands of years it is planned to keep the CO2<\/sub> underground. Good luck with that one. Regulatory frameworks governing geological CO2<\/sub> storage are being developed worldwide with issues of leakage and long-term stewardship being addressed. Again, good luck with asking future generations thousands of years hence to keep coughing up \u00a322 billion (note to reader: feel free to invent your own very large figure at this point)<\/em> to ensure vast quantities of highly pressurised gas are safely stored beneath the surface.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

DeSmog<\/em> was recently topped up with \u00a3400,000 from the Left-wing money tree Rowntree Foundation to continue promoting fracking scare stories and its notorious \u2018blacklist\u2019 of so-called climate deniers. On October 4th, it reported that a blowout in the Permian basin had created a 100-foot tower<\/a> of oily water. Drilling and fracking uses millions of gallons of water a day in the area, noted DeSmog<\/em>. \u201cIt\u2019s a ripper,\u201d said Hawk Dunlap, a libertarian candidate for the Railroad Commission. \u201cIt could be coming from anywhere and it\u2019s not going to be an easy fix,\u201d he said. DeSmog<\/em> reports that Dunlap said the region where the geyser erupted has been plagued by earthquakes amid record wastewater production.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

DeSmog<\/em> is all in on the invented climate crisis and a fervent supporter of the political Net Zero fantasy. It obviously hates all hydrocarbon use and has reported on the problems of carbon capture. For its part, mainstream media just sticks with demonising fracking. Donkey nodding politicians in many jurisdictions accept the need for huge quantities of money to be poured down the CCS hole but are obviously uninformed about the risks involved.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chris Morrison is the<\/em> Daily Sceptic\u2019s Environment Editor<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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If carbon capture and storage (CCS) was fracking for gas, it would have been banned years ago. Both processes can cause earth tremors \u2013 equivalent to a man falling off a chair in the case of fracking, but potentially much greater with carbon capture. This is because it involves millions of tonnes of pressurised carbon dioxide being pumped into rock cavities possibly compromised by prior drilling holes. Waste water from pressurised oil and gas projects has been known to escape from degraded drill plugs causing geysers 100-foot high. 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