The Northern Lights Carbon Capture and Storage facilities in Bergen, Norway, The project is hoping to show how carbon can be stores safely offshore under the seabed.

The Northern Lights Carbon Capture and Storage facilities in Bergen, Norway, The project is hoping to show how carbon can be stores safely offshore under the seabed. (Leon Neal/The Associated Press - image credit)

Many countries, including Canada, are counting on some kind of underground carbon storage to keep planet-warming greenhouse gases out of the atmosphere and avoid the most catastrophic climate projections.

But a study published this week in the journal Nature is raising a new issue with what is already a mostly unproven technology.

The study, led by researchers in the U.K., Austria and the U.S., analyzed a wider range of risk factors than conventional assessments of carbon storage potential.

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They found that globally,