Allen Police Jury Offers Support for Carbon Dioxide Sequestration Site Americanpress.com

“The Allen Parish Police Jury offered support Monday for the future development of a carbon dioxide sequestration site in the parish, but called for the state to amend a proposed bill to provide the parish with revenue from facilities located on private property.

Occidental Petroleum plans to drill CO2 sequestration wells and store CO2 in underground storage facilities on a 27,000 acre site in the West Bay Wildlife Management area located between La. 26 and La. 112, northwest of Oberlin. The property is being leased from Hancock Forest Management.

The facility is one of several proposed projects for Louisiana, which would allow companies to capture CO2 emissions from area refineries and industrial facilities and sequester it underground to help lower greenhouse emissions.”