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Public Acceptability
Implementing carbon dioxide capture and storage on a commercial scale will be a massive undertaking involving major modifications to power stations, construction of an extensive additional high pressure transport pipeline system, exploration for and development of underground storage reservoirs with associated CO 2 injection wells. It is to be expected that there will be some local public concern about general safety, possible disruption during construction, the routing and location of pipelines, wells and storage sites. Additionally there may be wider public concerns about the general acceptability of CO 2 storage on a large scale. It is too early to know how extensive such concerns will be. Demonstration projects, such as that proposed at Ketzin and others around the world, which are already in operation, all help towards understanding of this issue.
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