Posted on 06/02/2023 8:28:59 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Farmers in South Dakota are facing egregious intimidation tactics by a private company that wants to use eminent domain to confiscate valuable farmland for carbon-capture pipelines.
Summit Carbon Solutions requested a restraining order against Brown County farmer Jerad Bossly.
The company claims he threatened the lives of its representatives who showed up unannounced to survey his property, a farm that has been in his family for four generations.
He told The New American that when they arrived, he was about 12 miles away, working in a field. His wife was home, recovering from gallbladder surgery, and was taking a shower when the Summit surveyors knocked at her door. They entered the house, but finding no one there, they proceeded to an outbuilding where one of them walked in. In the tweet below you can see footage from one of Bossly’s security cameras, which captured all of this movement.
Next, the Summit staff walked out onto the Bossly’s property and started setting up a tripod. By that time, Mrs. Bossly, with Jerad on the phone, confronted them and asked them to leave. Jerad said that the sheriff should be present if the company wanted access to his land. So the surveyors left.
His wife called Jerad back later that day to say a detective had just left the farm. Summit had reported Bossly for threatening to kill the surveyors. They also charged him with contempt of court for interfering with their survey activities.
The judge ruled in favor of the landowner, but he warned other farmers not to interfere with surveyors, threatening sanctions if they do. Another farmer who attended the hearing told The New American that the judge also refused to hear any evidence against Summit. That farmer complained..”
(Excerpt) Read more at thenewamerican.com ...
Here’s a News Flash for you: Oxygen in high concentrations kills.
Where are they going to get the CO2 to put in the pipelines?
I wouldn’t want to be next to a natural gas pipeline if it burst either. Thankfully U.S. pipelines are built a little better than Cameroon pipelines.
“What we are obviously up against throughout the story is not scientists but officials.”
The “Aristocracy of Pull”
https://www.hoover.org/research/aristocracy-pull
I live about 500 feet from two large pipelines (one gasoline and one jet fuel). One of the pipes sprung a leak and caused a huge fire back in 1999 - luckily it was 50 miles away from me! (Was actually Y2K related with a bug in some new automated equipment they put in. Along with two other events that all had to happen for it to rupture. “Cascading Failure”.) And at least I’m uphill from it (just barely, but enough - hopefully!)
Yikes! Gasoline and jet fuel would make me a little edgy.
Considering how many thousands of miles of petroleum and nat. gas lines criss-cross this country serious breaches must be rare or we would all know of several incidents off the top of our heads.
The Wikipedia page for the International Space Station says that it has a fairly Earth-like, sea-level atmosphere: 21% oxygen
"The Wikipedia page for the International Space Station says that it has a fairly Earth-like, sea-level atmosphere: 21% oxygen, balance nitrogen at 101.3 kPa. Supposedly it's because a pure-oxygen environment is dangerous as in the Apollo 1 disaster, but in that case "pure-oxygen" meant 1.15 atm of O2. It seems like a pure, 0.21 atm O2 atmosphere (or even lower) with no inert balance gas should be fine for people and would be ~ 80% less structurally demanding."
https://space.stackexchange.com/questions/5690/why-is-the-breathing-atmosphere-of-the-iss-a-standard-atmosphere-at-1-atm-conta
Who knows about the O2 levels in confined spaces.
Some decades ago we had an incident where a gasoline tanker truck caught on fire at the very local pipeline terminal in town.
There was a Yuge tank of natural gas nearby.
It was a very big deal with an evacuation diameter in force around the tank. The city FD was dumping no shortage of water on the tank. Quart oil cans in a nearby building were going off quite regularly.
Nothing to fool with.
The tanker truck filling station was closed right after the fire was tamped down.
WithOUT CO2 your breathing reflex stops and you die.
4% is not a high concentration.
This ain’t no party, this ain’t no disco, this ain’t no foolin’ around! :)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0DpBnUznd0
Pretty high energy.
Thanks for the reference.
I largely missed a decade or two of much of pop culture once I got a JOB and got married in the middle 70s.
SSS, keep on Farming.
So when are American going to stop this?
Please do your part and stop exhaling your own CO2.
The world will become a better & more intelligent place.
A very simple solution to eminent domain for pipelines and powerlines is to pay the landowners every year going forward a royalty on the value of the product moving either above or below ground.
Under this model a pipeline becomes a source of ongoing revenue, an asset, not a liability. Every year a nice check makes the right of way look much nicer.
Cash is driving this project. Share it with the farmers who own the land the pipeline crosses.
A very simple solution to eminent domain for pipelines and powerlines is to pay the landowners every year going forward a royalty on the value of the product moving either above or below ground.
Under this model a pipeline becomes a source of ongoing revenue, an asset, not a liability. Every year a nice check makes the right of way look much nicer.
Cash is driving this project. Share it with the farmers who own the land the pipeline crosses.
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Why should you care? These are areas your food comes from! Are you aware that American farmers are on “Climate Czar” John Kerry’s hit list?
One Of The Biggest Illegal Land Grabs In U.S. History And NO ONE Cares!
Thousands of acres of private property are forcibly, illegally, being surveyed and seized for CO2 pipelines by private companies under eminent domain.
For years, the Fifth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution and similar provisions in state constitutions greatly restricted this power. - Institute for Justice. org
https://wholeamericancatalog.substack.com/p/one-of-the-biggest-illegal-land-grabs
Moneycircus had the same thoughts https://moneycircus.substack.com/p/crisis-update-united-nations-land
I missed most of the ‘80 and ‘90s music due to work and other pursuits too. Caught up on a lot in the last 20 years thanks to youtube. Evil corporation but lots of music for free.
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