Establishing An Aquifer Protection Policy For Co2 Geological Storage Utilising Hydrogeological Numerical Modelling, Bela-Bela (South Africa).
Southern Africa hosts over 93% of the continent's energy, which has been conserved in coal seams deposited in various Karoo age sedimentary basins. Carbon dioxide geological storage (CGS) is proving to be an emerging greenhouse gas technology (GHGT), that global governments have elected to mitigate the projected coal use in Southern Africa. One of the major challenges of successfully introducing CGS to the public and world leaders is the significant risk the technology poses to groundwater resources.