A Houston company wants to store carbon dioxide deep under Iberville and Assumption parishes. At a state hearing in Plaquemine on Oct. 8, residents, two Iberville Parish council members and environmental groups lined up to question the plan.
The Louisiana Department of Conservation and Energy held the hearing at the Iberville Parish Courthouse. The applicant is River Parish Sequestration LLC. It wants to drill four Class VI injection wells, the type used to store carbon dioxide permanently underground. Two would be in Iberville Parish and two in Assumption Parish. A fifth well in Assumption was approved earlier and was not part of the hearing.
The wells would go down 10,800 to 12,800 feet, according to the department’s summary read into the record. The area’s deepest underground drinking water is about 590 to 1,073 feet down…