UW pushes for more carbon sequestration money LARAMIE, WY (wpr) - The University of Wyoming is hoping to take the next step in Carbon Sequestration research. U-W is asking the Governor to support a 30 million dollar budget request for Carbon Storage research project in Southwest Wyoming. The project would be funded by federal abandoned mine land money and would be the first major research project in Wyoming that would involve the storage of carbon dioxide from energy development. U-W Associate Vice President for research Carol Frost says this project would join several other C-O-2 storage efforts that U-W is part of. "Would really allow us to bring this to the commercial stage. We would be installing the field of injection wells, and will be handling the displaced fluids in the subsurface, producing and using those beneficially."
Frost says they see this project as "the crowning piece in an overall long term strategy."
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