A Canadian startup plans to build the largest carbon dioxide removal plant in the world, capable of sucking half a million metric tons of the greenhouse gas out of the air every year.
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| Carbon Engineering's pilot plant in Squamish, British Columbia. |
If the project is ultimately built, it will represent a big step forward for direct air capture, a technology that a growing number of studies find could be essential for preventing dangerous levels of global warming. But it comes with a catch.
British Columbia–based Carbon Engineering is designing the Texas facility with a subsidiary of oil and gas giant Occidental, an investor in the direct air capture firm that would also be the main customer for the captured carbon dioxide. It would, in turn, inject carbon dioxide underground to free up additional oil from the company’s petroleum wells in the Permian Basin, in a process known as enhanced oil recovery
Read the MIT Technology Review story by James Temple - “Why the world’s biggest CO2-sucking plant would be used to … err, dig up more oil?”
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