Posted on 06/17/2023 11:06:51 AM PDT by CFW
MELLETTE, S.D.—On their way to attend their niece’s wedding in July 2021, fourth-generation farmer Ed Fischbach of Mellette, South Dakota, and his wife made a quick stop to check the mailbox.
His wife reached inside, pulling out a handful of letters. Within the small pile was an envelope from a company she had never heard of—Summit Carbon Solutions.
She opened the letter and began reading it.
“Dear landowner,” the letter began innocently enough. But as she continued reading, her jaw nearly dropped.
“Listen to this,” she told her husband.
The Iowa-based company described plans to build a massive carbon capture pipeline across five midwestern states in the letter.
The 1,400-mile pipeline would transport carbon dioxide under high pressure, produced by ethanol and biofuel refineries, for burial in North Dakota. The goal would be to reduce the region’s carbon footprint to protect the environment.
The Fischbachs then learned that the pipeline would travel through some of the most productive areas of the 1,400-acre property that has been in their family for decades.
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“It just set off a chain reaction. Nobody wanted this thing. They ended the meeting,” said Fischbach, leader of the South Dakota Easement Team opposed to the company’s attempts to acquire right-of-way easements by eminent domain to build the pipeline.
Since the July 2021 letter, Summit Carbon has filed more than 81 eminent domain lawsuits in 10 South Dakota counties against farmers who refuse to voluntarily sign easement agreements with the company.
“They’re trying to intimidate people,” Fischbach said. “They’re doing this with no permit. That’s what’s upsetting.”
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I think that you are confusing CO2 with CO. The latter is highly toxic and has killed entire families in their sleep because of improper combustion of coal in home heating.
The allegedly GOP governors and legislatures of both SD and ND support the pipeline including using eminent domain. Iirc enough allegedly GOP llegislatures in IA combined to block action against it this year also. Greenie lobby money at work.
Yeah, worked in 1776
“CO2 is often compressed and re-injected to maintain oil and gas reservoir pressure.”
Exactly the use I was going to mention. There is a refinery in Coffeyville KS that has a pipeline to move CO2 from fertilizer production to an oil field in Osage County OK for pressure maintenance in the producing formation. The pipeline & oil field are on the Tallgrass Prairie Preserve which is under the ownership of The Nature Conservancy. The oilfield itself is an asset of the Osage Indian tribe.
CO2 is 0.04% of the atmosphere. Isolating it is its own major project.
Has anyone presented ideas on how CO2 would be stored in the ground?
Is SD the destination for this CO2, or just the route to the destination.
What other possible motivations are there for such a pipe line? What else could it be used for?
The Farmers if they get Unified just need a Terms of Use Agreement to everyone they sell to, if You Sell or Deliver ANY product that ends up within 100 miles of the Capitol of the STate or Washington DC, you will NEVER purchase anything from us again.
LET THEM STARVE
This is an attempt to reduce the CO2 impact of corn ethanol production...(which BTW President Trump was recently promoting in Iowa). Get rid of “food as fuel” and problem solved, no CO2 pipeline needed.
Also, why isn’t the pipeline agreement an “easement”/right-of-way issue and not an eminent domain issue? Most pipelines are operated with landowners farming right over the top....the pipeline company has an easement for inspections/repairs. See last link below for how petroleum pipelines thru ag land are managed:
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2101084119
I’m thinking of the lake in Africa that is very deep, and has CO2 percolating up from underneath, under such pressure that a layer of highly carbonated water lies at the bottom undisturbed. There was a massive kill-off, very mysterious, until they realized there had been a major landslide into the lake, which stirred up the CO2 layer and released massive amounts of the gas, which crept over the ground around that end of the lake and killed just about everything and everyone. Part of the treatment for it was taking well piping out on a boat, and piecing it together down into the water until they hit the layer of CO2—it shot up from the pipe like a geyser. The CO2 I believe just suffocated everything.
“[carbon dioxide] killed 1,746 people and 3,500 livestock.”
Thanks to you and the other poster for correcting my mistake. I looked up “limic eruption”:
“dissolved carbon dioxide (CO2) suddenly erupts from deep lake waters, forming a gas cloud capable of suffocating wildlife, livestock, and humans”
Wow! Pumping CO2 underground ... could it leak out into deep lake waters?
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