Long-Term Protection of Freshwater Resources Following CO2 Storage
The subsurface geologic storage of CO2 represents a primary option for achieving reduced greenhouse gas emissions to the atmosphere. Important to the successful commercial deployment of the geologic storage of CO2 are 1) good site selection and 2) implementation of conventional as well as innovative monitoring methods, which will ensure that active carbon capture and storage operations are performing properly and are protective of human health and the environment. Equally important to commercialization is the ability to provide assurances to the general public that impacts to human health and the environment will not occur sometime in the distant future. This fact sheet identifies the primary physical and chemical mechanisms that are being relied upon to ensure the long-term containment of CO2 in a storage reservoir following injection.View/Download Document