The proposed carbon capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS) platforms currently under consideration here in South Dakota are a clear winner for our bioethanol industry, but the significant benefits they would bring to farmers and the many ag-driven communities across South Dakota is the side of the story not being told.
You’re obviously not a landowner who’s beloved farmland will be more dangerous, less productive and therefore worth less if CSS gets their greedy way. It’s gone from sadness to anger for those of us who this proposed pipeline will directly affect.
Has anyone asked why cities are allowed to LEASE land, while farmers are forced to SELL? Why are farmers not offered an option to lease. Don't get me wrong, I think the pipeline is very wrong headed. But I do wonder why cities are able to lease but private landowners are not able to lease.
“Following a pipeline rupture, carbon dioxide can displace oxygen – leading to asphyxiation and even death. Since CO2 is odorless and heavier than air, a release from a peak of a storage facility or pipeline could spread undetected for miles, suffocating everything in its path.” The danger from these is serious and I haven’t seen anything that convinced me the state or industry take the risks seriously enough.
There's no EMS plan and No decommissioning plan. No one--all the way up to the federal level, knows what to do in the case of a rupture. Vehicles, including all emergency vehicles will not operate due to lack of oxygen. All electric vehicles might operate. Do our local EMS have all electric vehicles? Navigator stated that emergency preparedness is up to the individual. How does a person prepare for an colorless, odorless cloud that settles on the ground? If it happens in the winter, the cloud will freeze ...until it thaws. How long can a frozen cloud remain?
But it seems that government officials from city council members to the governor, don't want to do anything to keep the citizens aware and prepared in the event this CO2 pipeline gets built.
I’m certainly a fan, Josh, but the obvious omission is -- if this is so great for Ag, why do something like 100 farmers have to have their property seized? Too dumb/stupid to understand what’s good for them? Seems like that should be addressed.
Turns out our property rights are only worth 19¢ a bushel. Thanks POET for trotting out your specious economic "study" with no statement of uncertainty and no vehicle to prove the results you claim, made worse by the fact that you lean into previous models that were never studied after the fact to prove that they actually worked.
How about sharing a study that actually matters? Like the plume models that Navigator and Summit refuse to share? There are public plume models that indicate every person within 4.17 miles of the Summit pipeline and 2.41 miles of the Navigator pipeline are in a "hazardous" zone should there be a rupture. They aren't sharing because they know the public would turn against the pipelines.
South Dakota just spent $5,000,000 in marketing to recruit new workers to our state because we already have jobs we cannot fill. You also know that the pipeline companies will bring out-of-state union skilled workers to build the pipeline, boom-and-bust our small towns, and in reality create very few long-term jobs for residents.
The ethanol industry doesn't need green grift to be profitable.
It was only to be expected that you or someone involved with making millions of $$$ (and probably more) would quickly put a out such a letter; and as we all notice, it's about nothing but money, money money and trying to justify the 'rape' of the route's landowners in the process. By a corporation for its own profit only it expects the powers of the state of SD (PUC) to approve their corporate greed by giving your corporation the right to trample crops, enter private property against the will of the landowner with the aid of local law enforcement. Your current efforts to force this thru quickly before most people are aware of your subterfuge. The sham of this all, is that the landowners and locals are the losers' your corporations the winner. Will this $$$ you brag to us about make us any safer? Is all this in the public interest or necessity?
You’re obviously not a landowner who’s beloved farmland will be more dangerous, less productive and therefore worth less if CSS gets their greedy way. It’s gone from sadness to anger for those of us who this proposed pipeline will directly affect.
Has anyone asked why cities are allowed to LEASE land, while farmers are forced to SELL? Why are farmers not offered an option to lease. Don't get me wrong, I think the pipeline is very wrong headed. But I do wonder why cities are able to lease but private landowners are not able to lease.
“Following a pipeline rupture, carbon dioxide can displace oxygen – leading to asphyxiation and even death. Since CO2 is odorless and heavier than air, a release from a peak of a storage facility or pipeline could spread undetected for miles, suffocating everything in its path.” The danger from these is serious and I haven’t seen anything that convinced me the state or industry take the risks seriously enough.
https://www.foodandwaterwatch.org/2023/05/30/over-150-groups-push-white-house-to-enact-carbon-pipeline-moratorium/
There's no EMS plan and No decommissioning plan. No one--all the way up to the federal level, knows what to do in the case of a rupture. Vehicles, including all emergency vehicles will not operate due to lack of oxygen. All electric vehicles might operate. Do our local EMS have all electric vehicles? Navigator stated that emergency preparedness is up to the individual. How does a person prepare for an colorless, odorless cloud that settles on the ground? If it happens in the winter, the cloud will freeze ...until it thaws. How long can a frozen cloud remain?
But it seems that government officials from city council members to the governor, don't want to do anything to keep the citizens aware and prepared in the event this CO2 pipeline gets built.
Protecting the public safety should be the most important.
Imagine this on an industrial scale. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Nyos_disaster
Ask emergency responders what they will do ? Regulations for safety need to be addressed.
I’m certainly a fan, Josh, but the obvious omission is -- if this is so great for Ag, why do something like 100 farmers have to have their property seized? Too dumb/stupid to understand what’s good for them? Seems like that should be addressed.
So, why doesn't each ethanol plant take care of its own carbon? That would be the responsible thing to do.
Turns out our property rights are only worth 19¢ a bushel. Thanks POET for trotting out your specious economic "study" with no statement of uncertainty and no vehicle to prove the results you claim, made worse by the fact that you lean into previous models that were never studied after the fact to prove that they actually worked.
How about sharing a study that actually matters? Like the plume models that Navigator and Summit refuse to share? There are public plume models that indicate every person within 4.17 miles of the Summit pipeline and 2.41 miles of the Navigator pipeline are in a "hazardous" zone should there be a rupture. They aren't sharing because they know the public would turn against the pipelines.
South Dakota just spent $5,000,000 in marketing to recruit new workers to our state because we already have jobs we cannot fill. You also know that the pipeline companies will bring out-of-state union skilled workers to build the pipeline, boom-and-bust our small towns, and in reality create very few long-term jobs for residents.
The ethanol industry doesn't need green grift to be profitable.
It was only to be expected that you or someone involved with making millions of $$$ (and probably more) would quickly put a out such a letter; and as we all notice, it's about nothing but money, money money and trying to justify the 'rape' of the route's landowners in the process. By a corporation for its own profit only it expects the powers of the state of SD (PUC) to approve their corporate greed by giving your corporation the right to trample crops, enter private property against the will of the landowner with the aid of local law enforcement. Your current efforts to force this thru quickly before most people are aware of your subterfuge. The sham of this all, is that the landowners and locals are the losers' your corporations the winner. Will this $$$ you brag to us about make us any safer? Is all this in the public interest or necessity?