Carbon Dioxide Pipeline Battle: Seize Land for Green Energy?

[rangerrebew]

Carbon Dioxide Pipeline Battle: Seize Land for Green Energy?
By Steve Goreham
August 06, 2024

A battle is underway in five Midwest states over construction of carbon dioxide (CO2) pipelines as part of the green energy transition. Opposition to wide-area pipeline networks is rising from farms and communities. But utilities and state governments intend to seize land over landowner protests.

On June 25, the Iowa Utilities Board (IUB) granted the petition of Summit Carbon Solutions (Summit) for a permit to build a CO2 pipeline across Iowa. The IUB determined that the pipeline was for “public use,” and granted Summit the right to seize land from Iowa landowners using eminent domain. Eminent domain has typically been used to take private land for government projects that serve a public good, but not for private industry.

Summit plans to build pipelines across Iowa, Minnesota, Nebraska, North Dakota, and South Dakota to transport captured CO2 to deep underground storage sites in North Dakota. The cost of the 2,500-mile project is about $5.5 billion.

https://www.realclearenergy.org/articles/2024/08/06/carbon_dioxide_pipeline_battle_seize_land_for_green_energy_1049891.html

[rangerrebew]

No pipelines for oil but no problem for the transportation of the most toxic, deadly, horrible substance in the universe?  Something seems questionable here.

[Smokin Joe]

This is getting friction in ND. The geological formation they want to inject the CO2 into isn't oil bearing: it is not a secondary or tertiary recovery scheme to extend the life of oil fields.

Specific concern is present over the Lake Nyos disaster, which, although natural, illustrates what can happen if large amounts of CO2 are released to atmosphere in a populated area. You can't burn it off, it accumulates in low areas, is odorless, colorless, and will not allow you to run any conventionally fueled vehicle (not to mention will asphyxiate you).

North Dakotans, especially considering the route was near enough to the state capital to provide a foreseeable limit on further development in the direction of the pipeline route, have some valid concerns and objections to a project many feel isn't necessary in the first place.

[DefiantMassRINO]

Use that $5.5 billion to plant some damn trees.

That scheme is expensive, nonsense, stupid, and potentially dangerous.

Pumping other types of waste underground has not worked well.