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Vertical Exploration Further Outlines How Its Wollastonite May Help Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Improve Agricultural Lands
VANCOUVER, BC / ACCESSWIRE / March 2, 2021 / VERTICAL EXPLORATION INC. (TSXV:VERT) ("Vertica...
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[{"type":"text","content":"Vertical Exploration Further Outlines How Its Wollastonite May Help Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Improve Agricultural LandsVANCOUVER, BC / ACCESSWIRE / March 2, 2021 / VERTICAL EXPLORATION INC. (TSXV:VERT) (\"Vertical\" or \"the Company\") would like to provide further information, as originally outlined in the Company's February 25th, 2021 news release, regarding how wollastonite can serve as a carbon sink and help reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions on agricultural land.The world agricultural fertilizer industry is on a continual evolution and treadmill - as population rises demand is placed on fertilizers to boost crop-yields even further, yet at the same time societal pressures require that the agriculture industry becomes more environmentally sustainable every day. Even the application of natural agricultural lime, which has been used for decades to increase soil pH (reduce acidity) and improve growing conditions for farm fields, gardens and lawns, contributes to CO2 emissions in Canada and the USA annually.Research is therefore underway throughout the world and in Canada that aims to locate fertilizers that enable negative carbon emissions in the agricultural sector, through the mitigation of greenhouse gases with innovative-engineered soil amendments that can be deployed on a large scale. Research teams are currently studying soil amendments that will provide the same fertility value of traditional fertilizers, but more efficiently with the added benefits of soil carbon sequestration.One such research effort involves University of Guelph engineers, Dr. Emily YW Chiang (Ph.D, P.Eng) and Dr. Rafael Santos (Ph.D, P.Eng), who along with their team have recently identified that the calcium-silicate mineral wollastonite could help to reduce atmospheric CO2. Namely, wollastonite can \"aid in a process called mineral carbon sequestration. Carbon sequestration is where atmospheric CO2 is captured through a chemical reaction and stored in the soil.\" Dr. Chiang's and Dr. Santos research work was released in a June 2020 (Volume 97) summary article in the International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control.The June 2020 article goes on to report that \"Chiang's work represents the first experimental research on wollastonite's potential for carbon sequestration in a field setting. To understand the impact of wollastonite on carbo...