Carbon storage? Not under my house!

Courtesy MSNBC.com: Environment  Tue, 11/10/2009 - 16:48

The town of Barendrecht, Netherlands, sits atop two depleted natural gas fields that Shell wants to use to capture carbon dioxide.The residents of a Dutch town are not against pumping tons of carbon dioxide into the ground to fight global warming.

They just don't want it to be the ground below their homes.




Email this Article Add to Newsvine

GlobalWarming - CarbonDioxide - Environment - Climate change - Carbon


 

More related items

Science in the News - Monday 12 October 2009
Britain’s ambitious policies to cut carbon dioxide in the fight against global warming are still not enough, the Climate Change Committee warns in its first annual report.

Bin Laden blames U.S. for climate change
Al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden has called for the world to boycott American goods and the U.S. dollar, blaming the United States and other industrialized countries for global warming,...

Microorganisms cited as missing factor in climate...
Those seeking to understand and predict climate change can now use an additional tool to calculate carbon dioxide exchanges on land, according to a new article.

Teaming with Microbes: A Gardener's Guide to the Soil...
Smart gardeners know that soil is anything but an inert substance. Healthy soil is teeming with life-not just earthworms and insects, but a staggering multitude of bacteria, fungi, and other...

Biomaterials Science, Second Edition: An Introduction...
The second edition of this bestselling title provides the most up-to-date comprehensive review of all aspects of biomaterials science by providing a balanced, insightful approach to learning...


 

Post new comment

The content of this field is kept private and will not be shown publicly.
science-nature.marc8.com