The roughly two-hectare facility, still under construction, is hosting what could be called a carbon removal Olympics. It will pilot eight different versions of a similar technology using various machines that will suck in air, remove the carbon dioxide and send it to a central plant where it will be compressed and liquified for storage deep underground.
The winner of this initiative wouldn’t get a medal on a podium. Instead, Deep Sky, the Montreal-based project developer behind it, plans to take the best versions of the direct air capture technology that prove most effective in Canada’s climate and deploy them on a commercial scale all over the country.
Illinois just banned this practice in certain areas where the only source of water is underground. ADM in Decatur Illinois has a project which leaked under the lake and ADM lied about it for months. The funniest part is that local politicians were shocked ADM would lie like they didn’t make a whole movie about it starring Matt fucking Damon.