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Tarek Alwan
I can assure foreign companies, looking into returning to Libya, to do and their contracts will be honored.
Tarek Alwan, Managing Director, SOC Libya Ltd.
pdjmoo
This is more about money than anything else. You are quite correct. It is not unlike the nuclear waste issue which has no answer but to somehow store it for thousands or millions of years instead of finding a way to neutralize it so it is not a threat to humans or environment. Humans have never been able to invent a container that will remain sealed and safe for millions of years.
Here with this crazy carbon capture scheme it is the same. Except this time we're going to bury it...but it doesn't make it go away...it sits there until one day it will find a way to re-release or morph into another toxic substance into the environment. Earthquakes, earth shifts, seeping out of the earth in ways we cannot even envision as we have no long-term history for unpredictable outcomes. God forbid this should happen in a sudden rush...can you imagine what would happen to the planet? We have to be more mindful about rushing into new fandangle ideas that solve one problem only to create another. This gentleman singing the praises of his invention in Norway is making a bundle. Let's find a way to invest these huge carbon capture dollars into just stopping putting pollution into our atmosphere in the first instance, not deferring the problem for another day and another generation with great risk for a catastrophic event (e.g. nuclear waste)
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