Pennsylvania is making an attempt to place itself as a possible hub for carbon seize and storage, a expertise that has been billed as a option to get rid of greenhouse fuel emissions from fossil gas use.
The Pennsylvania Geological Survey received $6 million on this 12 months’s funds for a brand new constructing to deal with its rising library of core samples. The samples are large cylinders of rock taken from deep underground, normally by fossil gas corporations in search of the very best place to drill or mine.
Proper now, packing containers of core samples from the final century are stacked flooring to ceiling within the basement of the Survey’s headquarters in Middletown.
State Geologist Gale Blackmer mentioned the brand new constructing will give higher entry to individuals who need to examine the cores.
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“The circumstances for viewing and possibly performing some on-the-spot analyzing just isn’t actually superb right here,” Blackmer mentioned.
The positioning of the brand new constructing hasn’t been chosen.
The core samples have quite a lot of worth for researchers now in search of the very best locations to inject carbon dioxide, so it might’t attain the environment.
However carbon seize expertise has to date been very costly, and untested on the scale wanted to keep away from harmful warming.
Geologists estimate rock formations in western and northern Pennsylvania might retailer billions of metric tons of CO2.
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However Assistant State Geologist Kris Carter mentioned there might be limitations, equivalent to price and entry.
“Not each place that will have storage or potential storage beneath it’s essentially going for use for that as a result of there could be competing makes use of or land use administration constraints above floor,” she mentioned.
Carter mentioned corporations may even want to contemplate stress constraints within the rock and whether or not any previous fuel wells within the space might compromise storage.
Gov. Tom Wolf just lately authorized $1 billion in new tax credit meant to make the state extra engaging to corporations making “clear hydrogen.”
Hydrogen has been touted as a gas that might assist clear up emissions from hard-to-decarbonize sectors like airways. When burned, hydrogen’s solely byproduct is water.
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However how clear hydrogen is will depend on the way it’s made. It’s thought-about “inexperienced” if it’s made utilizing renewable power.
Corporations planning to make hydrogen from pure fuel would want to discover a option to seize and retailer the ensuing carbon dioxide for the hydrogen to be thought-about clear.
This story is produced in partnership with StateImpact Pennsylvania, a collaboration amongst WESA, The Allegheny Entrance, WITF and WHYY.
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LAS VEGAS – A federal jury convicted a Pennsylvania resident today for kidnapping a woman in Pennsylvania then driving her to Nevada and killing her in the desert. John Matthew Chapman, 44, was found guilty of one count of kidnapping resulting in death. United States District Judge James C. Mahan scheduled a sentencing hearing for […]
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A steel drum weighing thousands of pounds somehow rolled out of a construction site in Pittsburgh and eventually struck and killed a woman who was walking on a nearby sidewalk, police said.
The accident occurred around 10:40 a.m. Friday in the city’s Oakland neighborhood, where the University of Pittsburgh’s new sports performance center is being built.
The drum was either knocked over or dislodged from a piece of heavy equipment, police said. It then rolled several hundred feet as it went down a hill, through a fence and onto the sidewalk where the woman was walking with co-workers from the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center’s Western Psychiatric Hospital. The drum then went across a road before it came to rest against a pickup truck.
The woman, who suffered a head injury, was pronounced dead at the scene a short time later. Her name has not been released, and no other injuries were reported in the accident, which remains under investigation.
DREXEL HILL, Pa. (CBS) – Video obtained exclusively by CBS News Philadelphia of a Pennsylvania State Police chase that ended with two troopers crashing in Delaware County puts the agency’s pursuit policies under scrutiny and raises questions as to why the pursuit began in the first place.
The video showed state troopers chasing a Ford Taurus through a bustling Township Line Shopping Center parking lot in Drexel Hill around lunchtime Tuesday.
Earlier this week, eyewitnesses described what they saw and explained their concerns.
“It’s crazy because there’s a school zone and it’s been a work zone for the past week,” Allison Murtaugh, who works at a nearby restaurant, said. “Kids get out of school. It’s a church. Like I said, it’s a work zone, 15 mph on top of the school zone. They could’ve killed somebody on top of themselves.”
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The video showed the car’s bumper dragging and the rear window gone. The car and its two occupants then exited the shopping center, making a right onto Burmont Road.
Investigators said the driver got away from police.
How did the chase start?
According to an internal police patrol alert we obtained, Upper Providence Township police claimed they spotted that Ford Taurus, believed to be connected to some unspecified thefts, many hours earlier on Monday night in Springfield, Delaware County.
The Taurus had a Delaware temporary tag partially covered by a black trash bag, according to the alert.
The driver’s head, according to the document, did not come above the seat headrest.
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Police attempted to stop the car at Route 352 and Gradyville Road when the pursuit began.
Police chased the car for miles, eventually reaching Route 1, where eyewitness Evan Gross of Robbinsville, Mercer County, was driving at the time.
“I’ve never seen a police chase before, but it seemed to be kind of reckless the way they were chasing him,” Gross said. “I didn’t expect to hear the suspect got away and two police cars crashed.”
The police chase eventually made its way to Rolling Road and Route 1 in Springfield, at which time a state police spokesperson said, “Two Pennsylvania State Police vehicles that were assisting were involved in a collision between each other.”
However according to the alert, “The pursuit was terminated in the area of North State Road and West Rolling Road due to the operator driving in the opposing traffic lanes. The vehicle was last seen traveling on North State Road missing its rear bumper.”
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The pursuit was terminated in the area of North State and West Rolling roads due to the operator driving in the opposing traffic lanes. The vehicle was last seen traveling on North State Road missing its rear bumper.
But a PSP lieutenant spokesperson said while their investigation into the state police collision is ongoing, he wouldn’t comment on the contents of the alert and why surveillance video showed the chase continuing a mile farther down the road, where the second crashed state police cruiser came to a rest.
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Chase raises questions about state police pursuit policy
The latest chase happened less than a week after three adults and a pregnant teenager died in a fiery crash as police pursued their vehicle in connection with retail thefts in Concord Township, according to investigators.
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Law enforcement sources said speeds in that chase reached 110 MPH.
More questions are now raised about Pennsylvania State Police pursuit policies.
We asked for a copy. A state police spokesperson said, “For public safety and officer safety reasons, our pursuit policy is confidential.”
A message seeking comment from the North Providence Township police chief, where the chase Tuesday began, was not returned.
Neither trooper involved in Tuesday’s crash was injured.
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Police are still looking for the people who were inside the Ford Taurus.
Joe Holden
Joe Holden came home to join the CBS News Philadelphia team as a general assignment reporter in May, 2016. In August 2018 he became anchor of the weekend evening editions and Philly57.
