As part of a project that's likely to be watched closely by North Dakota's coal industry, technicians at a West Virginia coal-fired power facility have begun injecting captured carbon dioxide into two saline reservoirs approximately a mile and a half underground. The project is the first time carbon dioxide has been captured from a power plant and injected underground solely to sequester it rather than for purposes such increasing oil well production as is currently being done with captured carbon dioxide from Dakota Gasification's plant in Beulah.
The participants in the West Virginia project are
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