Underground project key to making fuels more Earth-friendly
By Greg Kline
Sunday January 13, 2008
Robert K. O'Daniell
State Geological Survey Chief Bill Shilts, left, and Rob Finley, head of the survey's Energy and Earth Resources Center, are planning the third phase of a project that will pump a million tons of carbon dioxide underground.
One Web wag, who evidently has never been to East Central Illinois, had it happening in the Mount Simon mountain range, which drew an incredulous chuckle from Rob Finley as he talked about it.
But if a project headed by the Illinois State Geological Survey to trap a million tons of carbon dioxide deep in the Earth lacks actual mountains, it might make up for it in some of the mountainlike numbers involved.
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