ExxonMobil carbon capture deal reviewed in southeast Montana [Video]

A massive southeast Montana carbon sequestration project, 14 years in the making, is under environmental review by the Bureau of Land Management.

ExxonMobil’s “Snowy River Carbon Dioxide Sequestration Project” would span 110,000 subsurface acres between Ekalaka and the Montana-Wyoming border. There, over 20 years, the company would pump an estimated 150 million tons of carbon dioxide from unidentified sources into a rock formation more than a mile beneath the surface.

The project has raised concerns about well water contamination and wildlife endangerment, as well as risks to local livestock operations and the possible leakage of carbon dioxide resulting from earthquakes.

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