Hawaiian environmentalists are furious.
They are calling the experiment a threat that could devastate Hawaii's sport and commercial fishing industries, cripple ocean related businesses, weaken tourism and violate the traditional sacred oceanic cultural beliefs of the Hawaiian people. Carbon sequestration is one method being explored for preventing the release of greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide, which can lead to global climate change. The researchers involved are uncertain of what the results may be of the sequestration experiment, which will take place less than a mile from the Hawaii National Humpback Whale Sanctuary. Clocking speeds of more than 50 miles per hour, the pronghorn is the fastest land mammal on the continent. But in southwest Arizona's Sonoran desert, the pronghorn must dodge activities conducted by several branches of the military that train on the Barry M. Goldwater Range.