HACKBERRY, La. (KPLC) - Louisiana has approved the first carbon storage well, which will allow carbon dioxide to be pumped beneath Black Lake near Hackberry.

The Class VI permit will allow Sempra Infrastructure to inject an estimated two million metric tons of carbon dioxide every year for up to 20 years under Black Lake, permitting documents say.

This application is the first of what could be three carbon storage wells coming to the Hackberry area. The sequestration well and CO2 plume associated with it will be located over 8,000 acres and will include one storage well and a monitoring system.

The injections would consist of 98% carbon dioxide and 2% methane.

“We have that area of review, which is that space everywhere that’s believed this carbon plume would go. I mentioned the monito

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