Landowners fight back against latest green energy scam: ‘Carbon capture’ pipelines

Horowitz: Landowners fight back against latest green energy scam: ‘Carbon capture’ pipelines

The goal of the green anarchists is quite transparent. They want to make oil and gas too regulated, expensive, and scarce to remain viable while subsidizing and mandating fake green energy to perpetuate the lie of global warming so they can eventually transition us to centrally controlled unreliable energy. Then we can fulfill the dream of “eat bugs, own nothing, and be happy” by 2030. Republicans who have bought into this “carbon capture” scam think it’s a way of saving oil and gas by acceding to the premise that CO2 is a problem, but in fact it will play into the hands of green energy fanatics. Thankfully landowners in the upper Midwest and Great Plains, who are on the hook for eminent domain, are beginning to fight back.

Imagine building pipelines and infrastructure not for oil and gas to efficiently flow to consumers, but for a green energy scam to supposedly capture carbon in the air and then route it underground and somehow store it in large quantities forever. It is the most impractical and expensive way of utilizing our natural resources, will enrich cronies, will make oil and gas prohibitively expensive, and will barely make a dent in atmospheric levels of carbon. Oh, and the entire impetus for doing it is the climate lie. Unfortunately, pretty much every GOP governor has bought into it, and now it’s coming to a head with farmers and landowners who are upset that their land might be sequestered for such an inane crony project.

Summit Carbon Solutions, a very well-connected Iowa-based company, is planning a carbon sequestration pipeline over 2,000 miles long called Midwest Carbon Express. It would be routed through Nebraska, Iowa, South Dakota, Minnesota, and North Dakota, supposedly transporting CO2 emissions from Midwestern ethanol plants to North Dakota just northwest of Bismarck, where they will be stored underground in very expensive infrastructure.

American Enterprise Institute senior fellow Benjamin Zycher explains the problematic math as follows:

The IEA total cost estimates for GHG capture using CCS technologies are around $50-120 per ton. Global GHG emissions are about 53 billion tons per year. Capture of merely 10 percent — less than the approximate advertised but not credible 15 percent Paris goal, and far less than the IEA SDC — at, say, the low-end figure of $50 per ton would cost about $265 billion per year. Is this supposed to be serious?
Furthermore, you have the cost and logistics of storage to contend with. As Robert Bryce observes, “We would need to find an underground location (or locations) able to swallow a volume equal to the contents of 41 oil supertankers each day, 365 days a year.” Are we really going to drill and build all over our country for a voodoo green crony scam? Has anyone even thought of the safety issues of permanently seeding our underground with this stuff?

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