re: ExxonMobil sues Allen Police Jury over CO2 sequestration permit ordinance

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Co2 sequestration is a scam perpetrated on the American taxpayer by democrats and oil companies. Don’t be a rube…

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Me posting an article on a lawsuit makes me a rube?

Interesting…

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Carbon sequestration companies are going to get paid to sequester co2 from taxpayer funds from Biden’s 2022 Inflation Reduction Act.There would be no interest in it if it wasn’t for subsidies.

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Europe has it worse. US tax credit is $85 per metric ton of CO2 injected. It's a federal tax credit. Europe has to pay $175 per metric ton of CO2 emitted. So if you own a refinery and emit 3 million metric tons of CO2 a year, which for example Marathon Garyville emits around 6 million metric tons of CO2 a year, you'd have to pay $550 mil in penalties. Over half a billion dollars.

This starts in 2029 or 2030 in Europe. US is incentivizing companies, Europe is penalizing them at a bigger rate, 2x.

“ There are too many cap layers of impermeable rock between surface in Allen Parish to 5,000 ft. for it to make it’s way to the surface”

That’s what they thought in Decatur Illinois.There are many sequestration wells being permitted all over the U.S. but the one in Decatur was the first one to actually have CO2 pumped in it for sequestration.Has the Mt.Simon deep saline formation of porous rock “especially suitable for CO2 storage”.
Wasn’t filled nearly to capacity before it started leaking.The operator didn’t notify the EPA for 3 months.
Quote from article-“there is concern that pumping CO2 into saline reservoirs near subsurface water risks pushing pressurized CO2 and brine toward those resources ,which would pose additional contamination risks”
I think that’s the key to the danger of the CO2-it’s pressurized.

A geologist named Brad LeBlanc (President of Bradford Minerals and SeniorGeoscientist for Sweet Water Land &Oil ) has given 2 presentations in Central Louisiana and I attended both.He says there are several ways CO2 can leak.First of all,no one knows for sure how far the CO2 will spread
and could reach an area of fractured rock that can’t contain the CO2 and it will rise to the surface.
Second,well casings are surrounded by cement but over time the cement will degrade and allow CO2 to escape.
Third there are 1000’s of abandoned /orphan wells which could allow CO2 to escape.
He says it’s not a matter of if the CO2 will escape,it’s a matter of when.


The guy is very impressive,his presentation is over an hour and is accompanied by numerous slides.He’s been in the business for some 47 years.Most importantly no one is paying him to fight this,unlike the LSU PhD’s and scientists that no doubt are being funded by Exxon.They are too sure they have all the answers and there is no risk,it’s settled science.Interstingly but not surprising they never mentioned the CO2 leak in Decatur Illinois.

I called them out on it also.There was a Q&A/comment session afterwards.
I got up and told them I,didn’t trust the “science”they were trying to indoctrinate us with.I didn’t mention Exxon but I said I know scientists can be bought and they will support any position whoever is paying them wants.
To illustrate,I recounted the infamous “Sugar Study “ that LSU Pennington Research Center conducted for Coca-Cola.The result was that obesity was not related to sugar intake,rather it was a lack of exercise.

I think anyone that would listen to Brad LeBanc’s presentation would have serious reservations surrounding carbon capture and sequestration.

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his industry has been going on for over a century, and it rarely is a problem that the injected saltwater gets encroaches into freshwater aquifers. CO2 injection is a very similar concept.

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The biggest difference I see is that saltwater already exists in these reservoirs. So injecting additional SW into a zone does not introduce any new fluid into the reservoir. Where with CO2, if it is already present, it is in small amounts. So with injecting CO2 into the reservoir, you are changing the chemical composition of the reservoir by increasing the CO2 saturation.

Very perceptive on your part. I learned today that the Allen Parish Police Jury voted to pull back the ordinance due to significant financial risk including losing the parish's ability to provide essential services.

Sheriff Hebert said that "ExxonMobil could have worked with us to address our local concerns but chose to sue us. They knew that."

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Sheriff Hebert said that "ExxonMobil could have worked with us to address our local concerns but chose to sue us. They knew that."

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Like I stated in my OP, Exxon didn’t pay all that money buying Denbury to let a rural parish get in their way of a project to get their ROI.

Personally, I don’t necessarily like the project, or the huge amounts of tax dollars propping them up, but it’s just the reality. Exxon will lawyer up and get their project.

Not exactly the same but it is pretty common for H2S to spread outside of the intended zone in produced water disposal wells.

There are many cases in south and west Texas of H2S spreading several thousand ft above the injection zone.

I do not believe that there has been any news releases about this project in over a year.

Thanks for the response.