Lake Monoun, West Cameroon, West Africa - In 1984 carbon dioxide (CO2) bubbled to the surface of the lake from a geothermal vent killing 37 residents in nearby villages. Two years later, 1986, a similar incident occurred also in West Africa, Lake Nyos. In this instance the lake was said to have become saturated with carbon dioxide and an underwater event, possibly landslide, caused the lake to turnover releasing a cloud of concentrated CO2 which quickly covered a 12 mile area killing 1746 people and thousands of cattle.

In coal mines - “choke damp or black damp” has been killing miners since mining began. Choke damp is pockets of concentrated CO2 underground where the air is void of any oxygen. The carbon dioxide is released directly from the coal seam.

These examples show what could happen if the carbon dioxide supposedly captured from power plants and buried underground ever gets out. If released in just small amounts it will counteract any effort of storing to reduce global warming and climate change. If it escapes in large quantities it can be deadly.

For the coal industry and the politicians in the pockets of the coal industry to be putting so much faith and trying to convince you CCS (carbon capture and storage) is a good thing without any facts to go along with their rhetoric is just deceiving.

CCS does not eliminate the problem. It takes the carbon dioxide from one place and puts it somewhere else, IF it even comes to fruition, where it is meant to stay F O R E V E R!!! It can NEVER get out or all efforts are wasted. As I have said before - anything man-made will eventually fail - it has a finite lifespan.

Clean coal technology (CCT) and carbon capture and storage (CCS) is just simply a propaganda ploy. It is meant to counteract only one thing - opposition to coal.

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Invisible CO2 Gas Killing Trees at Mammoth Mountain, California