The Sun Times’ recent editorial “Pipe nightmare? Put safety in place before transporting carbon dioxide to Illinois” questioned the safety and need for two new pipeline projects being developed to transport and sequester CO2 in Illinois. The good news: answers to those questions already exist.
The projects mentioned are not enabling the use of fossil fuels. Navigator CO2’s Heartland Greenway and Wolf Carbon Solutions’ project were primarily initiated to capture carbon otherwise released into the atmosphere from corn being processed into ethanol. They’re also set to capture carbon emissions released during fertilizer production.
