{"id":28157,"date":"2025-01-15T08:00:39","date_gmt":"2025-01-15T08:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/activist\/why-dumping-carbon-pollution-in-our-oceans-is-a-dangerous-experiment\/"},"modified":"2025-01-15T08:00:39","modified_gmt":"2025-01-15T08:00:39","slug":"why-dumping-carbon-pollution-in-our-oceans-is-a-dangerous-experiment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=28157","title":{"rendered":"Why dumping carbon pollution in our oceans is a dangerous experiment"},"content":{"rendered":"


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\"Influencers<\/a>
Influencers Riley Whitelum and Elayna Carausu, from Sailing La Vagabonde, hold a sign reading \u201cWoodside Leave Our Reefs Alone\u201d, while freediving in the Scott Reef lagoon.
\u00a9 Greenpeace \/ Michaela Skovranova<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Have you heard the latest plans from Woodside? They\u2019ve added carbon dumping to their plans for their proposed Browse offshore gas project in the North West of Western Australia. They call it carbon capture and storage, but in reality it\u2019s risky carbon dumping.<\/p>\n

Help us demand an immediate rejection based on unacceptable environmental impacts.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Protest
Protest at CCS Trade Fair in Hamburg. \u00a9 Jonas Wresch \/ Greenpeace<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

What is carbon capture and storage?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Carbon capture and storage involves capturing, transporting and storing greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuel power stations, energy intensive industries, and gas fields by injecting the captured greenhouse gases back into the ground.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Carbon capture and storage, when done at sea, is regulated under the Federal Government\u2019s Sea Dumping Act<\/a> \u2013 hence the name \u201ccarbon dumping\u201d. This technology sounds promising if it was able to work at scale, but in reality it\u2019s a risky experiment attempting to bury carbon pollution beneath our oceans.<\/p>\n

Woodside, however, only intends to capture some of the CO\u2082 that already exists in the gas field as an unusable by-product and re-inject it back underground. They are not proposing to sequester any of the emissions produced from refining or burning the gas they extract. Which of course is where the vast majority of the emissions would come from.<\/p>\n

In Woodside\u2019s carbon dumping proposal, they also plan to conduct ongoing seismic blasting every five years in biologically important whale habitat next door to Scott Reef. It\u2019s a dodgy addition to an already deeply problematic gas drilling plan.<\/p>\n

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Protest of Woodside and Drill Rig Valaris at Scarborough Gas Field in Western Australia. \u00a9 Greenpeace \/ Jimmy Emms<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

But why is carbon dumping a bad idea?<\/strong><\/p>\n

There may be some instances where geological storage of carbon may be a last resort solution but definitely not as a justification to drill for more fossil fuels, creating much more carbon pollution than can be stored. Other reasons why Woodside\u2019s carbon dumping proposal is a bad idea include that it:<\/p>\n