Performed legal research and analysis to assess the statutory, regulatory and case law ramifications of innovative
underground storage tank remedial technology.
Researchers want to convert the waste, held
in underground storage tanks, into durable glass that can be stored for thousands of years.
The plaintiff was a buyer under a sales contract executed with the defendant with respect to property on which
leaking underground storage tanks were discovered after execution of the sales contract.
Set aside for a moment the massive engineering feat that would be required of pumping CO2
into underground storage tanks.
Such storage costs roughly a tenth of what battery storage costs, but it isn't used much because in large part because it requires a location
with underground storage space.
That gives them an obvious dual purpose — ideal for gas extraction, but also for protecting
underground storage spots for CO2.
Yet these properties of the solar system must now compete against a new force — a creature that shifts vast amounts of carbon from
deep underground storage into the atmosphere.
Following the Aliso Canyon underground natural gas storage leak, the largest natural gas release in U.S. history, and subsequent Congressional mandates, PHMSA is working to issue an IFR to require operators
of underground storage facilities for natural gas to comply with minimum Federal safety standards for the regulation of interstate underground natural gas storage facilities.
Following the Aliso Canyon underground natural gas storage leak, the largest natural gas release in U.S. history, and subsequent congressional mandates, PHMSA is working to issue an interim final rule (IFR) to require operators of
underground storage facilities for natural gas to comply with minimum Federal safety standards.
In 2010, Duke University researcher Robert Jackson found that, in theory, carbon dioxide leaking from
underground storage sites — including in central Illinois — could contaminate drinking - water aquifers with pollutants such as uranium under the wrong conditions.
This latest one will cost tax payers $ 2 - million for environmental violations stemming
from underground storage tanks owned by the county.
Environmental Law attorneys also serve as regional counsel to a major petroleum company, handling claims and environmental litigation
involving underground storage tanks and other petroleum - related releases.
The 23 October 2015 blowout of a well connected to the Aliso
Canyon underground storage facility in California resulted in a massive release of natural gas.
The plan had been to capture carbon emissions from a natural gas plant at the site, which also hosts an oil refinery, and pipe them into
underground storage on the Norwegian continental shelf.
In a new study, Stanford scientists have shown that recycled water percolating into
underground storage aquifers in Southern California picked up trace amounts of arsenic because the water was too pure.
California could continue to utilize fossil fuel for electricity production if we capture the resulting emissions and pump them underground, and the state has many decades of
underground storage capacity for carbon dioxide.
The 10 million tons of CO2 placed in
underground storage by the US CCS demonstration programs demonstrates that we can put CO2 out of reach of the atmosphere, a critical requirement for any carbon dioxide removal method.
Results: A thin film of water more quickly solidifies gaseous carbon dioxide, according to scientists at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory who are
studying underground storage of the common pollutant.
«The large -
scale underground storage of CO2 in former natural gas reservoirs could be very significant in the future,» believes Stefan Penthor.
One can imagine an underground network of CO2 pipelines for EOR — and
ultimately underground storage of the greenhouse gas — that grows to the size of the underground and aboveground network of oil and gas pipelines that currently exists, one that covers most continents and even extends offshore to where CO2 can most safely be buried under the seafloor.
Furthermore, estimated
feasible underground storage has been reduced by approximately 60 percent of the storage originally envisioned in the CERP, reducing the benefits provided by the CERP in multiyear droughts.
While examining ways that carbon dioxide could
escape underground storage, Kang wondered about the effect of old wells on methane emissions.
Much of that water returns to the surface and is stored in lined pits or closed tanks for recycling or injection in
underground storage caverns offsite.
The 400 m2 garage and service area is decked out with state - of - the - art service equipment and a
large underground storage facility offers customers secure long - term parking.
If CO2 is captured following EOR and re-injected into
underground storage spaces, those wells would need to be capped and sealed to ensure no leakage.
The amount of working natural gas in
underground storage increased 625 Bcf during April - June 2012, according to EIA's Weekly Natural Gas Storage Report.
Working gas in
underground storage at the end of the 2011 - 2012 heating season stood at a record high because of above - normal winter temperatures, thus limiting the amount of gas that could be injected this year.
As energy security is a high policy priority, the country is enhancing gas supply security by building an LNG terminal,
expanding underground storage capacity and increasing domestic gas production.
It is estimated that more than 80 % of the U.S. territory has geology suitable for
such underground storage (Gardner and Haynes 2007).
The captured CO2 can then be compressed to a high enough pressure that it behaves like a liquid, and put into a pipeline for transport to a
suitable underground storage site.
In the case of an environmental accident, cleanups must be performed according to the guidelines set forth in certain state and federal laws, including the New Jersey Spill Act and the Industrial Site Recovery Act, the federal Superfund law and
various underground storage tank laws.
NAR will focus on federal and state legislative and regulatory solutions to liability problems associated with properties
containing underground storage tanks, which can impact property value and give rise to extremely costly liability for cleanup and damages.
Until the mid-1980s
most underground storage tanks (USTs) were made of bare steel, which is likely to corrode over time and allow UST contents to leak into the environment.
«The DAC (direct - air capture) technology provides distinct advantages to achieve this aim and is perfectly suitable to be combined
with underground storage.»
In addition to the above, Sunny regularly handles environmental claims and serves as counsel in litigation involving
leaking underground storage tanks, groundwater contamination, and claims pursuant to the New Jersey Spill Compensation Act.
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