Posted on 08/22/2022 6:54:40 PM PDT by The_Media_never_lie
On a cloudless afternoon last week, Dan Tronchetti stood amid a field of leafy soybeans and struck a scarecrow pose.
The 66-year-old farmer was trying to ward off what he considered an invader.
While his wife, Susan, fixed her camera on him, Tronchetti, wearing a gray Carhartt T-shirt and a red mesh-back hat, held his arms out straight to either side to indicate where a developer wanted to route a pipeline through the 1,500 acres that his family farms in northwest Iowa. He hoped that illustrating just how close to his home the pipeline would run might catch a reporter’s attention.
He rejected Summit Carbon Solutions’ offer of $90,000 for the right to build there last December, but the Ames-based company “would not accept no.” After months of what Tronchetti described as “harassing” calls and emails, the firm asked state regulators last week to seize portions of his land through eminent domain. The last time a controversial pipeline wanted to take private farmland from unwilling sellers, the powerful Iowa Utilities Board approved.
(Excerpt) Read more at huffpost.com ...
Wishful thinking and weasel words. Just ask the people in north TX how well wind and solar works. And while you're at it, ask them how they are disposing of those 60' blades when they start showing stress fractures. Oh, and don't forget to ask where all of the rare earth minerals are coming from for the batteries that are necessary to store the energy after dark or when there's no wind. Stupid.
Bkmk
I don’t know if the government could come up with a bigger scheme to waste our money.
There aren’t enough batteries in the world to power a medium sized city for 12-15 hours.
Cluster fluck is all I can comment.
We will not survive these fools.
“They’re going to use the CO2 to force more crude oil to the surface, they’re going to refine it to use for motor fuels, and we will burn the motor fuels in vehicles on the road that will produce more CO2,” he said. “It just blows my mind that they think the people of the United States are so stupid that we can’t see through their gimmick.”
They really do think we’re that stupid!
We cannot spend money for idiocy when our economic competitors are building their economies. Economic Hari-Kari. In order to virtue signal? The world doesn’t care. They think we are crazy!
And laughing their asses off as they fly past us leaving us in the dust and waste bin of history.
The late USA.
Considering that with flawed and faulty temperature measuring due to the heat island effect, temps may not actually even be warming .
Yeah, he’s against lower gas prices etc., because they are all good for his business. /sarcasm 😋
...the U.S. may need as much as 30,000 miles of new pipeline — more than all the gas pipelines in California, New York and Pennsylvania combined — to affordably convey the carbon dioxide the new law incentivizes companies to start capturing.What a staggering WASTE of precious money, money that could be used for real productive assets. We will fall further and further (or is it "farther"?) behind China with this waste. This is utterly insane.
Windmills that don't work or pay off; solar cells that have limited life and make huge amounts of waste; needing 6 to 12 times more mines to add windmills and solar cells; unproven carbon capture and sequestration; tens of thousands of miles of pipelines to transport CO2 from those mythical CCS plants that don't work.
The entire USA has gone stark raving mad. We are absolutely doomed. Our kids and grandkids are going to be so poor.
The fact that this one would be for CO2 aside, my biggest gripe with pipeline operators is that they don’t pay fair lease prices, and they too often fail to honor whatever shotgun contracts the landowner does agree to.
I live on the Marcellus Shale, so this is too close to home for me.
When the pipeline is finished, will it be capable of moving crude oil or NG?
If the pipelines are being built for sequestering CO2, I doubt they could be efficiently repurposed for oil or natural gas. It would be designed and optimized and routed for CO2 sequestering. Insanity, mass hysteria!
As a farmer he should know that all of his farm machinery like tractors and combines run on diesel fuel, which comes from oil not unicorn farts. Does he like the price of diesel fuel and would love to see it go higher or have shortages at critical planting and harvest time? He should be watching what climate cultists are demanding in the Netherlands, Ireland and even Canada... putting farmers like him out of business over nitrogen emissions and cow farts. This guy doesn’t have a clue.
Unfortunately there are many many stupid people that believe this garbage.
they are gonna try even if it takes all the money in the world and generates more carbon than oil and gas ever did
thats how deluded...uh dedicated they are to saving mother erf
and we wont be able to stop them because of the totalitarian police state necessary for implementing the green new deal
remember the unilateral disarmament nuts?
they are back on steroids
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.