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‘Huge wave’ of carbon storage projects causes alarm in small-town USA as oil firms eye billions in subsidies

First publishedJul 12, 12:00 UTC

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‘Huge wave’ of carbon storage projects causes alarm in small-town USA as oil firms eye billions in subsidies

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Dozens of projects are in development across US despite concerns over environmental and health risksThe plan to bury carbon under remote Indiana farmland is supposed to be a slam dunk for the climate, according to its supporters – all generously funded by US tax dollars.But as far as Melissa Harrison and some other residents of Clymers, Indiana, are concerned, it just might be the end of their town. “This is our place,” she says. Generations of her family are buried in the cemetery, and she is raising her five grandchildren in one of several dozen white-clapboard homes among corn fields and industrial plants serving the farming industry. Continue reading...

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