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Letter: Gigantic gas leak

Published 18 May 2005

From Geoffrey Mentink

The strategy of underground carbon dioxide sequestration seems like it is an accident waiting to happen (30 April, p 26). I can see the day coming when, after years of pumping CO2 underground, an earthquake liberates the stored gas and suffocates all plants and animals in its vicinity.

Warrandyte, Victoria, Australia

Issue no. 2500 published 21 May 2005

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