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An international start-up has been pushing for regulation changes to allow it to carry out controversial marine carbon storage in New Zealand waters.
The company, Gigablue, says its technology could be game-changing for the climate, with the potential to store ‘gigatons’ of carbon in the deep ocean and create local jobs.
Its latest trial off the Otago coast is underway right now.
But experts in marine science and law are urging New Zealand to proceed with caution, saying that type of technology is hard to prove, hard to measure, and, at worst, unsafe for the environment.
The company says it needs to be able to carry out ocean research to build its evidence…