Seabed supplies a cure for global warming crisis

I'm in favour of any reasonable plan to get CO2 out of the atmosphere and this seems surprisingly well thought out, unlike the first appearance of the idea. "Under the scheme, carbon dioxide from power stations - instead of being vented into the atmosphere - would be liquefied, pumped back out to the North Sea via a disused gas pipeline and into the Miller field. Five million tonnes a year could be stored there for more then 10,000 years, say researchers. BP would gain because the carbon dioxide pumped into the depleted field would help to flush out its last reserves of oil, while Britain would be provided with a sink for its fossil fuel emissions."

My main concern is taht it could make people a bit complacent about the issue of global warming and fossil fuels etc and so put a brake on the changes that would stilll be necessary in th elonger term fo produce a society which lives within its ecological means, sustainably.

And what do we make of this?

"BP has warned ministers the scheme is currently uneconomic. To make it feasible, the government will have to ease its oil taxes. At present, the Treasury takes £7 from every £10 worth of North Sea oil. BP wants this reduced to £3 for the last Miller oil to make its storage plan viable."

There's an interesting comment on nuclear power at the end too.

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