Pipeline

This pipeline will scar our countryside forever!

This underground pipeline will transport captured carbon dioxide from industrial sites in the Peak District and Staffordshire to undersea storage. This pipeline project will create an ecological scar the width of another M53 Motorway right down the middle of the Wirral Peninsula and across Cheshire and into Derbyshire. Even after completion the evidence will still be visible, where trees, hedges, deep footed walls once stood; large gaps will remain. Deep rooted trees and hedges will not be allowed to be "replanted" as the roots or foundations will not be allowed to encroach on the pipeline to prevent damage

The pipeline construction site requires a working corridor roughly 30 meters wide, (According to Peak Cluster and Butcher & Barlow LLP). Quote: " The Peak Cluster CO2 pipeline is designed with a diameter of approximately 24–36 inches (61–91 cm), (According to Peak Cluster and Butcher & Barlow LLP). Quote: "

This pipeline should be considered a health hazard anywhere near where it passes. As if the CO2 escapes from a leak or a rupture it will form an asphyxiating cloud very fast

An important difference is the higher pressure in this CO2 pipe as it will be around 10 times the pressure of that used in our gas network. About 180 bar compared to about 16 bar for domestic gas

Below are some of the issues we need to worry about. When things go wrong:

When a co2 pipe fractures the concentrated co2 becomes dry ice with a temperature of minus 79 degrees, it is so cold it effectively turns the surrounding carbon steel pipe to glass causing an unzipping of the pipe, the result as you can see in the pictures are real and terrifying. (Credit: Norman Ord)

This looks like an AI image depicting a "Total Failure" along a pipeline (above ground). It depicts the cloud of liquid gas cloud falling back down and spreading outward along the ground.	Blow out along a pipeline (above ground), note the cloud of liquid gas cloud is falling back down and hogging the ground.
Block Valve blow out, note the cloud of liquid gas condensing into super cold vapour. Notice it stays low and is lingering at low level.

I hear a lot of people saying about the pipeline itself, "it's only a gas pipe and there are lots underground already". Well, this is not an ordinary gas pipe as you see being used to replace gas mains down local roads, just look at the dimensions:
As already mentioned above:

The Peak Cluster CO2 pipeline is designed with a diameter of approximately 24–36 inches (61–91 cm or 610 - 910mm).

Now lets look at what is used in the UK for domestic gas: (Key Gas Main and Service Pipe Sizes (UK) from www.gasconnections.co.uk)

Service Pipes (Street main to house): Commonly 20mm, 25mm, 32mm, or 63mm.

Residential Mains (Small network): Often 40mm, 63mm, or 90mm, depending on the number of properties supplied.

Distribution Gas Mains (Larger network): Typically 75mm to 355mm, commonly yellow medium-density polyethylene (MDPE).

So I created this image below to show the CO2 pipe size are considerably larger than the pipes we see CADENT using to replace our aging network of pipes for domestic gas supply.

So as you see the Peak Cluster CO2 pipe at its largest size is almost over twice the diameter of our domestic gas distribution pipes! So it's not just another gas pipe!!
This why such a huge work area is needed creating such destruction to the countryside and the environment!