Australia opens its first geosequestration plant to bury carbon dioxide

Geosequestration has the potential to significantly reduce greenhouse
gas emissions from the burning of fossil fuels.

CANBERRA, Australia (AP) -- Australia has begun pumping carbon dioxide underground to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, using a technology that locks dangerous gases deep in the Earth.

Officials opened a plant in southern Victoria state on Wednesday that they said would capture and compress 110,231 tons of carbon dioxide from industry emissions and then inject it 6,500 feet underground into a depleted natural gas reservoir. full story