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1. Haryana Government takes Pilot Project:

In collaboration with the National Disaster Management
Authority (NDMA), Government of India, Haryana State
Government had mooted a Disaster Preparedness and
Resilience Initiative Pilot project in January this year. After a
series of meetings, the district administration is now set to
unveil the project.

“We have prepared a plan keeping in mind the fast pace at
which Gurgaon is developing. Our aim is to handle all sorts
of crises, man-made or natural, by reducing the reaction time
of the various bodies involved,” Gurgaon Deputy
Commissioner and chairman of the District Disaster
Management Authority Rajendra Kataria said.

2. Ocean Trap for Carbon Dioxide:

In an attempt to address global warming, a handful of power
plants are capturing carbon dioxide during the energy-
generation process, liquefying the gas under high pressure
and piping it to geologic storage sites miles away. But
sequestering carbon dioxide underground is impractical in
many areas, and it raises fears that the stored gas will
escape. Energy hopes to pump carbon dioxide pollution into
sandstone located almost two miles beneath the floor of the
Atlantic Ocean. Now a new plant in Linden, NJ, will test an
ocean carbon-sequestration technology that could expand its
potential dramatically. If permits are approved, the plant,
operated by SCS Energy, based in Concord, MA, will pump
its carbon dioxide pollution into sandstone located almost
two miles beneath the floor of the Atlantic Ocean. Previous
storage efforts have focused on filling underground
structures such as depleted oil reservoirs, but these
structures don't contain enough volume to accommodate the
vast amounts of CO2 produced. On the other hand, undersea
storage has raised concern that carbon dioxide could slowly
leak into ocean water.

Harvard University professor of Earth and Planetary
Sciences Daniel Schrag addressed some of these concerns
in a 2006 PNAS paper, in which he suggested storing carbon
dioxide in porous sediment hundreds of meters below the
sea floor in deep parts of the ocean. Stored at this depth,
under higher pressure and temperatures, the carbon dioxide
should be less buoyant and remain trapped indefinitely.

(Source: Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

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