IMO PLOTS CARBON UNDERSEA STORAGE REGULATIONS
November 1st, 2006
BY KEITH NUTHALL
CONTRACTING governments to a key International Maritime Organisation (IMO) protocol on marine pollution have approved amendments allowing the storage of carbon dioxide (CO2) under the seabed from February 2007. IMO members have changed the 1996 London Protocol to the Convention on the Prevention of Marine Pollution by Dumping of Wastes and Other Matter so CO2 can be stored in a "sub-seabed geological formation". The gas can only be dumped in voids when overwhelmingly pure CO2 and "no wastes or other matter are added" for ...
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