A new battle is shaping up over Air Products' controversial plans for carbon injection wells beneath Lake Maurepas, with the extensive digging required now coming into focus and stirring fresh opposition to the project.

The carbon injection and storage field is expected to require enough underwater digging that the removed mud could fill LSU's Pete Maravich Assembly Center nearly twice over, company estimates show.

The digging will help make way for a network of underwater pipelines for carbon dioxide, natural gas and fiber optic cables that will form roughly the shape of two "T's" touching end to end, plans show.

Air Products announced its plans to build the first carbon capture and sequestration operation in Louisiana nearly four years ago, but the extent of the work has come into sha

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