Posted on 02/16/2023 12:41:59 PM PST by Right Wing Vegan
A carbon capture company is hoping to install a 1,300 mile pipeline across the Midwest, with injection points in Central Illinois.
The Heartland Greenway Project, created by the company Navigator CO2, hopes to stop 15 million tons of carbon dioxide from entering the atmosphere each year.
"Which is equivalent of removing the greenhouse gas emissions of 3.2 million vehicles driven annually," Danielle Anderson, Public Affairs Manager for Navigator CO2, said during a virtual town hall Wednesday night.
The company plans to take CO2 from more than 20 ethanol and fertilizer plants across the midwest, pressurize it into a liquid, and pipe it down to Christian and Montgomery counties.
"It is then safely and permanently stored over a mile underground and over time mineralizes into a solid and becomes part of that rock," Anderson explained.
Heartland Greenway representatives said the pipeline will create 1,900 permanent jobs and pay more than $30-million in property taxes each year. But they'll need approval from hundreds of landowners to install the pipe through their properties.
"They're leaving in the line to Christian County, so this is in addition more farm land damaged, more people's lives at risk," Kathleen Campbell, an organizer with the Coalition to Stop CO2 Pipelines.
Environmental advocates are asking landowners and farmers to deny the company access, worried about long term damage to farms and safety risks.
"Its actually quite frightening and they're going so close to housing- not recognizing the safety risk to the homeowners. If that ruptures, these people could die," Campbell told WAND News.
The company said it will have advanced detection systems in place and are already working with local emergency responders.
"We continue to have these types meetings where we can sit down and focus and really get to know the teams in the various counties. But also work with the teams to develop our emergency response plans," the Vice President of Capital Projects for Navigator CO2 Chris Brown said.
The original proposal to the Illinois Commerce Commission has been withdrawn, but Navigator plans to refile this month.
"We don't intend to just do what's required by the code, we also intend to go above and beyond that," Brown added.
Navigator CO2 hopes to begin construction in 2024 and bring the pipe on-line in 2025.
Just hold your breath and stop drinking alcohol. Breathing and producing alcohol released CO2 into the atmosphere. So if you stop drinking the alcohol, they’ll stop making it, and if you stop breathing, that’ll be that./satirically but modestly proposed.
Every day gives us something stupider than the previous. How entertaining!
Which Senators’ idiot in-laws got the contract for this gig?
Here’s an idea. Let them get permits and build pipelines for CO2. Then when sanity makes an appearance in government, pipe oil and other needed goodies in those pipes.
Good God what a scam.
This is all well and good, but CO2 is not as dangerous as toxic Dihydrogen Monoxide (DHMO).
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Heard that Nevada, Arizona and Calipornia are wanting to store their excess in surface areasβ¦
I’m upset! I haven’t given permission for my CO2 to be exported and pipelined! Gonna need some reparations here.
What a SCAM.
The olden days of those peddling magic elixirs, cure-all tonics and guaranteed lightning rods have been replaced by big time scam artists.
Gonna pipe cow farts to Canada?
Oh noes!!!!!! What if there’s a major See Uh Oh2 spill or a train crashes!!!!π΅π³π€‘
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What idiocy. It's not like it's going to explode in a ball of fire or cause cancer.
BTW, there is at least one major US oil company that is injecting CO2 for secondary recovery here in the oil patch. They actually have drilled CO2 production wells in NE New Mexico and pipe the CO2 for oil recovery.
There are some African lakes saturated with CO2. The saturated water goes to the bottom of the lake, but occasionally the lake turns over, that saturated water goes to the surface, releases its CO2 and kills nearby villagers.
Can’t they do it by train. Trains are safer than pipelines, aren’t they?
The Universe is sooooooo huge....this amount is a big nothing
ββ¦ This is all well and good, but CO2 is not as dangerous as toxic Dihydrogen Monoxide.β
Over 1700 people killed when this African volcano burped CO2:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Nyos_disaster
NO Pipelines Allowed
Joe Biden
If I had to bet between CO2 in the atmosphere destroying the world according to the obvious hoax, and some fool pipeline and underground reservoir doing local damage, my money’s on the fool pipeline and underground reservoir doing local damage.
Looks like there are teeing up to kill a lot of people. I can see a repeat of the Lake Nyos disaster.
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