Carbon Capture Project Rejected Over Groundwater Fears

Carbon Capture Project Rejected Over Groundwater Fears
A view of the Murray River at Wentworth along the border of New South Wales and Victoria in Australia on Feb. 21, 2007. Robert Cianflone/Getty Images
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A controversial plan to inject tonnes of wastewater into Australia’s Great Artesian Basin has been rejected amid fears it would cause “irreversible” change.

Mining giant Glencore’s CTSCo had planned to capture carbon dioxide from the coal-fired Millmerran power station in southern Queensland, liquefy it and store it 2.3 kilometres underground.