"The committee does not feel that immediate, provincewide elimination of underground injection of non-saline water is a reasonable response to public concerns because of current technical and economic considerations," says the committee's 23-page report, released Tuesday.
But it says that if sufficient reductions aren't achieved through a voluntary effort, the province should follow up with "a mandatory regulatory requirement."
No need to force oilpatch on water injection: committee
Note: No need to force oilpat...
Stumble It!
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If I stand for my country today...will my country be here to stand for me tomorrow?
"The greatest price of not participating in politics is being governed by your inferiors." Plato
I would ask the cattle farmers of Alberta if they believe there is no need to look closer at the use of fresh water to get more oil. I suspect they would have something very different to say.
Roy
Dr Caleb, CO2 injection into oil wells
is not new, a couple of google searches
revealed lots of articles going back
two decades. What I did not see and what
I could not find was any environmental
impact studies as to the effects this
might have on the environment. Have you
seen any studies?
I don't want to sweep a problem under
the rug just to find out that the rug is
disintegrating.
Capturing enough CO2 is also a problem,
we have natural air scrubbers, trees, but
we seem to want to "harvest" them out of
existence.