BY ADAM DAIGLE | Acadiana Business Editor The emerging carbon capture and sequestration technology has been embraced in Louisiana, opening the possibility of a major new industry while also addressing climate change. Companies have been looking throughout the cane fields and woods of rural Louisiana for storage sites, leaving residents with uncertainty and uneasy choices. Carbon capture and sequestration, or CCS, compresses carbon dioxide nearly into a liquid and injects it thousands of feet down into formations that experts say can hold it permanently, keeping those heat-trapping emissions out of the atmosphere. Advocates and industry officials point out that companies have been pumping CO2 underground for decades to push up oil from depleted fields. They say they know how to do it safely. You can read the full story here. Have a great day and thanks for reading. |