In an effort to lessen the impact of climate change, a company has proposed capturing carbon dioxide, turning it into a liquid, and storing it underground, thousands of feet below timberland in Covington County, near the Conecuh National Forest.

It’s a plan that locals have expressed serious reservations about.

“The more research I did, the more terrified I became of this project,” said Jimmy Stiles, a biologist who lives in the Conecuh National Forest. “And that’s coming from an unabashed environmentalist.”

Reliant CCS, a Colorado-based renewable energy firm, has proposed using 74,000 acres of forest near Florala, outside of the Conecuh National Forest for the “Pine Hills Storage Hub.” The company would build 44 wells underneath the land to inject liquified carbon dioxide, according to

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