Canadian Study Casts Doubts on Promise of Carbon Capture and Storage
Green Inc:
In the face of mounting support for “clean coal” and the billions being invested in carbon capture and storage, or CCS, technology, a new assessment from the University of Toronto’s Munk Center for International Studies has a stern warning for policy-makers: there could be dramatic unintended environmental consequences to sequestering huge amounts of carbon dioxide in the earth’s mantel.
“The politicians are saying we can do this, and the scientists are saying, ‘we don’t know,’” says Mr. Thomson, who covers provincial politics.
