Fighting Climate Change With Carbon Capture May Cause Quakes

Bloomberg: Burying carbon dioxide in the ground, considered a promising way to combat climate change, may increase the risk of earthquakes, according to a report. The process, in which liquefied carbon dioxide is stored in caverns, "may have the potential for causing significant induced seismicity," the National Research Council said today. Injecting wastewater underground from natural-gas fracking may also trigger earthquakes, while using hydraulic fracturing to get trapped gas doesn't pose a "high risk,"...

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