re: Carbon Capture

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They have to have a hearing before the state mineral board. You will get notice of the hearing if your property is affected.

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The people around Lake Maurepas didn't get a notice.

Just another way to steal tax money and further burden the working man.

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Carbon Capture

What’s the boards opinion on this?

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Benefits of this type of carbon capture and witch burnings have about the same scientific basis.

So the company wanting to capture the carbon and the carbon sequestration well, held a public hearing this week. This is required to get their class 5 permit.

A few things that came out this meeting..

1.) The company only needs 75% of suggested acreage signed by the landowner to be able to move forward. Not 75% of the landowners but 75% of the acreage. Of the acreage requested roughly 80% is owned by a timber company that has already signed. So they can proceed with or without the rest of the landowners.

2.) Local municipalities have no authority. The federal government and state government hold all the power.

3.) sounds like all this 100% subsidized by the government with our tax dollars.

Crazy times!

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To make matters worse, the citizens have no say so. Even the land owners who will be having this put underneath them. The government is considering this imminent domain.

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In the parish I grew up in, they are pushing this fiasco by claiming it's going to create something like 1k jobs (implying that those will go to the locals). The last I heard (and it's been a while), no one was pushing eminent domain (but the rhetoric likely changes based on who is pushing it).

While these funds may be coming from the feds, these aren't federal projects (to the best of my knowledge). Eminent domain is for government projects for the public good and (ostensibly) for public use (frick you, Kelo) which have to go in a certain area (a roadway, a park, a post office, etc) with little options otherwise. This carbon capture bullshite has LOTS of geographic options.



Since there are no federal laws governing the use of eminent domain for carbon capture, that authority is going to fall onto the states. Enter the fricktardary of outgoing state senator Sharon Hewitt:

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§1108. Eminent domain, expropriation

A.(1) Any storage operator is hereby authorized, after obtaining any permit and any certificate of public convenience and necessity from the commissioner required by this Chapter, to exercise the power of eminent domain and expropriate needed property to acquire surface and subsurface rights and property interests necessary or useful for the purpose of constructing, operating, or modifying a storage facility and the necessary infrastructure including the laying, maintaining, and operating of pipelines for the transportation of carbon dioxide to a storage facility, together with utility, telegraph, and telephone lines necessary and incidental to the operation of these storage facilities and pipelines, over private property thus expropriated; and have the further right to construct and develop storage facilities and the necessary infrastructure, including the laying, maintaining, and operating of pipelines along, across, over, and under any navigable stream or public highway, street, bridge, or other public place; and also have the authority, under the right of expropriation herein conferred, to cross railroads, street railways, and other pipelines, by expropriating property necessary for the crossing under the general expropriation laws of this state. The right to run along, across, over, or under any public road, bridge, or highway, as before provided for, may be exercised only upon condition that the traffic thereon is not interfered with, and that such road or highway is promptly restored to its former condition of usefulness, at the expense of the storage facility and the pipeline owner if different from the storage operator, the restoration to be subject also to the supervision and approval of the proper local authorities.

B. The exercise of the right of eminent domain granted in this Chapter shall not prevent persons having the right to do so from drilling through the storage facility in such manner as shall comply with the rules of the commissioner issued for the purpose of protecting the storage facility against pollution or invasion and against the escape or migration of carbon dioxide. Furthermore, the right of eminent domain set out in this Section shall not prejudice the rights of the owners of the lands, or minerals, not acquired for the storage facility and not reasonably necessary for the use of the acquired property.

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Short version: any company working on this can get authority to claim eminent domain at a nod from the state's DEQ.

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Apparently they’re going to “capture carbon and send it to a well 10,000 feet deep”. Problem with that is, this well will be right below our aquifer.

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Your aquifer is no where near 10,000' deep.

Still, carbon capture is a ruse.

carbon capture could be detrimental to life on this planet. We need CO2 in the atmosphere to survive.

good for belching

If this is in Allen parish American Press had a big article on it and KPLC was also there.Police Jury was questioned on why they let this happen. The response of the board was they didn't do it the state rep. did and he was a no show at the meeting

“Strangely enough, in most states, the surface owner owns the pore space, not the mineral owner.”

In most states mineral rights and surface rights have been separated.. ie you sell your land but keep your mineral rights.. in Louisiana the go back together if no production i the area for X years ( I think 7)…..

Surface owners as you said own pore space (actually sediment grains creating them).


So injection for disposal of waste water etc is a deal between the surface owner and companies wanting to inject something down there..

The landowner usually get a dollar amount from “rent” of their surface land for use in operations and X dollars per barrel of water disposed ..

And yes the disposal zone should be no where near you fresh water aquifer.. but things leak and disposal stuff find its own path sometimes.