Leawood, Kansas-based Moxa Carbon Storage LLC is moving forward with plans for a project to store minimally toxic carbon dioxide in underground voids

Kansas Company Planning Gigantic 600,000-Acre Carbon Capture Project In SW Wyoming

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2024-07-05 23:30:07

Leawood, Kansas-based Moxa Carbon Storage LLC is moving forward with plans for a project to store minimally toxic carbon dioxide in underground voids deep under a huge swath of southwest Wyoming.

The project’s backers want to store carbon dioxide underground in nearly 605,100 acres of "pore space" beneath Lincoln, Sweetwater and Uinta counties.

Moxa spokeswoman Rachel Carmichael was not immediately available to explain whether Moxa plans to capture the carbon dioxide in a direct air capture method or some other way.

Moxa Carbon is working with the Wyoming Department of Environmental Quality and Bureau of Land Management field offices in Kemmerer and Rock Springs on permits for the project.

Filings submitted to the BLM say no public-owned surface lands would be disturbed, though the carbon dioxide would be stored in federally owned underground pore space.

Carbon sequestration is the process of injecting carbon dioxide — the most common greenhouse gas — deep underground, permanently preventing it from entering the atmosphere.