State leaders intervene after billion-dollar company's secretive push comes to light: 'Our project m

[rangerrebew]

State leaders intervene after billion-dollar company's secretive push comes to light: 'Our project moves forward'
Story by Simon Sage • 6h

According to the Watertown Public Opinion, South Dakota has just passed a bill that stops big corporations from enacting eminent domain to complete carbon dioxide projects.

This issue has been raised to oppose an upcoming pipeline that aims to deliver carbon dioxide from over 50 ethanol plants across five states to an underground storage facility in North Dakota. This $9 billion project is being led by Summit Carbon Solutions, a company that had filed some 80 lawsuits against landowners who refused to cooperate.
 
Ethanol is a popular fuel made from corn in the United States. It produces roughly 52% less pollution than gasoline and is routinely mixed with gasoline for consumer use. Start-ups have been keen to use ethanol to reduce pollution in trucking and aviation. Capturing and sequestering carbon made during production further improves ethanol's eco-friendliness.

Eminent domain is a legal mechanism by which owners can be forced to sell a portion of their land at fair market value if the land is going to be used in projects that support the public good. One could argue that sequestering carbon is for the public good, making it viable for eminent domain claims.

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[Free Vulcan]

Good, wish Iowa would do the same.

[Smokin Joe]

Ethanol is a popular fuel made from corn in the United States. It produces roughly 52% less pollution than gasoline and is routinely mixed with gasoline for consumer use. Start-ups have been keen to use ethanol to reduce pollution in trucking and aviation. Capturing and sequestering carbon made during production further improves ethanol's eco-friendliness.

> cough, cough< horseshit>cough<

We got stuck with it, by law. Anyone running 'legacy' (carbureted) engines or small engines including outboard motors knows ethanol is notorious for screwing up fuel systems. Anyone who can get 'no ethanol' fuel knows it gives better mileage and better power because the energy density is greater. Forcing people to use more fuel to do the same job is hardly 'energy efficient', and it does not take into account all the CO2 generated by making the ethanol. Burying CO2 (which takes energy, not to mention the emissions generated in creating infrastructure to do so) doesn't really improve anything, it just buries it.

Especially considering that anthropogenic CO2 is not proven to be a driving forcing factor in the 'global warming' everyone is having fits over (with the planet coming out of an Ice Age), and the CO2 will not be involved in the secondary or tertiary recovery of oil currently in situ in any reservoir, this is just expensive posturing, and a big cash cow for someone.

[DefiantMassRINO]

Ethanol contributes to inflation because it increases the costs of corn and gasoline.

I doubt the process to convert corn into ethanol is Net-Zero.  So, it may not have a net environmental benefit.

It is uneconomical for man to replicate what millions of years of geological and tectonic activity have done - to  convert organic matter into petrloeum, coal, natural gas, kerogen, etc.

Nature has given us a gift with fossil fuels.  Fossil fuels are the most efficient stores of energy available in nature.

The rapid advancement of human civilization in the last 200 years was precipitated by the exploitation of fossil fuels for energy.