(P&GJ) - Navigator Heartland Greenway has voluntarily withdrawn its application for a certificate of authority to build a 250-mile portion of its CO_2 pipeline through a part of western Illinois, but the company said it plans to refile soon. The reason given by the company, and somehow hailed as a major victory by those opposing the project, was that all the easements for a related proposed sequestration site had not been obtained yet, making the paperwork for the request incomplete. These thing happen, of course, and are routinely rectified, but what seems strange to me (although by now, maybe it shouldn't) is that anyone this intent on protecting the environment would take such a position regarding a CO_2 sequestration project in the first place. Disposing of CO_2 is, after all, is a good thing, I would think, from everyone's perspective. Afterall, CO_2 contributes to air pollution and plays a substantial role in the greenhouse effect.
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