Iowans Gearing Up to Fight Agenda 2030-inspired Carbon-capture Pipelines

[WisconsinLiberty]

Iowans Gearing Up to Fight Agenda 2030-inspired Carbon-capture Pipelines


The New American
July 28, 2022


Will Iowans be able to stop private companies from digging up their fertile, grade-A, Midwestern farmland and running hundreds of miles of carbon-capture pipelines under it?

Private pipeline companies are collecting voluntary easement agreements from landowners, but have threatened to apply for eminent domain for those stubborn enough to resist.

And indeed many Iowans are resisting, and at least one activist who’s devoted his life to stopping deceptive pro-environment schemes believes it’s very possible to stop the pipelines and keep the excavators from hitting the dirt.

“I believe we can win,” Tom DeWeese, a property-rights expert, told The New American July 26. The key is for citizens to join hands across the counties and say “no,” he added.
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Full Article:
https://thenewamerican.com/iowans-gearing-up-to-fight-agenda-2030-inspired-carbon-capture-pipelines/

 

[acptulsa]

This is a new one to me. It's pretty bizarre.

The idea of a CO2 capture pipeline is to catch carbon dioxide before it enters the atmosphere, pressurize it, liquefy it, and transport it via underground pipelines to a targeted underground location, where it will be buried and stored. The pipeline companies will install equipment at ethanol plants located in Iowa — and in other nearby states — to capture nearly pure carbon-dioxide emissions resulting from fermentation processes. According to The American Society of Mechanical Engineers, five such pipelines are in the planning or construction phases. Three of them would run through several Midwestern states, including Iowa.

The private companies behind the Midwest pipelines are Summit, Navigator, and a partnership of Wolf Carbon Solutions and Archer Daniels Midland. The companies claim the pipelines will yield agricultural, economic and, of course, environmental benefits. Summit’s website says the pipelines will open new economic opportunities for Midwestern ethanol and agricultural industries, create jobs and generate new tax revenue for local communities, and have the capacity to capture and permanently store up to 12 million tons of CO2 every year, the equivalent of removing 2.6 million vehicles from our roads annually.

So ethanol is the way to cut carbon, is it?

If I were a farmer I'd be tempted to let them put it in, drill a bunch of holes in it, and see if a heavy concentration of CO2 does to plant metabolism what heavy concentrations of O2 does to animal metabolism.

 

[sparebulb]

Don't expect much of a fight from Iowa's elected crew.

Grassley is only a couple of points on the dementia scale better than Brandon as he is cruising toward his next election that will take him into his late 90's in office, and Joni Ernst is a hard-core woke neocon.

It has been so long ago that neither of these two clowns can remember just when they sold out.

There will be no resistance of any measure.