Offsite Post: ‘Reject, Don’t Reform, Carbon Capture’

 

Rep. Danny McCormick is certainly one of the better officials in Baton Rouge, someone who is not only willing to talk about State sovereignty but also do something to advance it, which makes us unhappy to have to criticize him.  But in this case it is necessary.  Rep. McCormick is sponsoring HB783, a bill that would ensure all property owners receive equal compensation if their property is taken from them for the sake of a carbon capture project.  That sounds nice – equal pay for the little guy – except for one problem:  He should be rejecting the entire premise the carbon capture ‘industry’ is built upon instead of trying to normalize it.

It’s fairly simple to do.  There’s only a couple of key points one has to keep in mind:

·         Carbon dioxide as it is normally emitted by people or machines is not a hazardous compound (it actually helps plant growth); and

·         Carbon capture is an entirely phony business enterprise, being driven and funded almost completely by federal regulations and debt dollars.

But there are other considerations apart from these that are also coming to light that make carbon capture projects less than desirable.

1.  Expansion of carbon capture pipelines will take up sizeable amounts of land:

The U.S. has a relatively small network of carbon dioxide pipelines, totaling approximately 5,000 miles and primarily located in the Midwest and Gulf Coast regions.

 

But to transport just 15% of the country’s greenhouse gas emissions, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and financial industry project up to 96,000 miles of new pipelines may be required — enough to cross the continental U.S. 32 times, coast to coast.

2.  Highly concentrated CO2 (which is the state it is usually in when travelling through carbon capture pipeline systems) is a health hazard, as demonstrated by a carbon pipeline rupture:

In 2020, a rupture in a Denbury Enterprises carbon dioxide pipeline in Satartia, Mississippi, led to a mass asphyxiation event, causing people to become disoriented and unresponsive, with some even losing consciousness.

 

As hundreds attempted to flee the area, vehicles stalled and shut down, because internal combustion engines require oxygen.

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The rest is at https://thehayride.com/2024/05/garlington-reject-dont-reform-carbon-capture/.

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