<div dir="ltr"><div>An excerpt of this article is copied below.</div><div>--------------------------------------</div><div>Vision2020 Post: Ted Moffett</div><div><br></div><a href="https://www.desmog.com/2023/11/06/global-ccs-institute-community-engagement-carbon-180-mcfarland-california-air-products-iowa-louisiana-navigtor-co2-ventures/">https://www.desmog.com/2023/11/06/global-ccs-institute-community-engagement-carbon-180-mcfarland-california-air-products-iowa-louisiana-navigtor-co2-ventures/</a><br><div><br></div><div><div class="gmail-jet-listing-dynamic-meta__author gmail-jet-listing-dynamic-meta__item" style="box-sizing:border-box;display:inline-block;margin-left:0px;font-size:14px;font-family:Rubik,sans-serif;margin-right:5px"><span class="gmail-jet-listing-dynamic-meta__prefix" style="box-sizing:border-box;display:inline-block;margin-right:4px">By</span><a href="https://www.desmog.com/user/dana-drugmand/" class="gmail-jet-listing-dynamic-meta__item-val" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(29,29,30);display:inline-block;font-weight:700">Dana Drugmand</a></div><div class="gmail-jet-listing-dynamic-meta__date gmail-jet-listing-dynamic-meta__item" style="box-sizing:border-box;display:inline-block;margin-right:0px;font-size:14px;font-family:Rubik,sans-serif;margin-left:0px"><span class="gmail-jet-listing-dynamic-meta__prefix" style="box-sizing:border-box;display:inline-block;margin-right:4px">on</span><span class="gmail-jet-listing-dynamic-meta__item-val" style="box-sizing:border-box;display:inline-block">Nov 6, 2023 @ 03:00 PST</span></div><br></div><div><div class="elementor-element elementor-element-5446d27 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Rubik,sans-serif;width:860px;font-size:16px"><div class="elementor-widget-container" style="box-sizing:border-box"><div class="elementor-text-editor elementor-clearfix" style="box-sizing:border-box"><div class="gmail-jet-listing-dynamic-meta__date gmail-jet-listing-dynamic-meta__item" style="box-sizing:border-box;display:inline-block;margin-right:0px;font-size:14px;margin-left:0px"><span class="gmail-jet-listing-dynamic-meta__item-val" style="box-sizing:border-box;display:inline-block"><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:1.5rem;margin-bottom:1.5rem;font-size:16px">Yet amid mounting concerns over health and safety risks of carbon capture operations, and fears that CCS serves as a lifeline to the fossil fuel industry, DeSmog finds that communities in California, Iowa and Louisiana where CCS projects are proposed have limited to no meaningful engagement with developers or government officials. When residents express adamant opposition to these projects, developers continue to push their plans forward, in some cases resorting to legal action to counter public resistance. </p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:1.5rem;margin-bottom:1.5rem;font-size:16px">“What we see with a lot of these CCS projects that are currently in development and where communities are engaging,” is residents telling the developers ‘no’, Salgado told DeSmog. If Oglesby’s statement about communities having a real choice were true, he said, “then what we should see is that developers won’t pursue these projects in these areas.”</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:1.5rem;margin-bottom:1.5rem;font-size:16px">Instead, project developers are forging ahead, eager to capitalize on billions of dollars in government subsidies supporting CCS deployment, despite the technology’s<a href="https://www.desmog.com/2023/09/25/fossil-fuel-companies-made-bold-promises-to-capture-carbon-heres-what-actually-happened/" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;text-decoration-line:none"> poor track record of underperforming</a> and the significant<a href="https://www.desmog.com/2023/03/07/ohio-derailment-phmsa-pipeline-transport-hazardous-material-carbon-dioxide/" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;text-decoration-line:none"> regulatory gaps around CO2 pipelines</a>, among other issues.</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:1.5rem;margin-bottom:1.5rem;font-size:16px">“I do feel that it’s a mad dash to push this forward. It’s not reliable,” Salgado said. “None of this feels as if it’s being done in an environmentally just way. It feels like we’re having this stuff just shoved down our throats.<span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-weight:600">”</span></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:1.5rem;margin-bottom:1.5rem;font-size:16px">Carbon capture and storage (CCS) and the related carbon capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS) technologies trap some of the carbon pollution emitted from industrial facilities; after chemically separating the carbon dioxide (CO2), the gas is compressed and transported, typically by pipeline, to another location where it is either used for other applications, in the case of CCUS, or injected deep underground for storage. The vast majority of currently operating projects in the U.S. use the captured carbon to<a href="https://www.desmog.com/2023/09/25/how-carbon-capture-and-storage-projects-are-driving-new-oil-and-gas-extraction-globally/" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;text-decoration-line:none"> drill for more oil in a process called enhanced oil recovery</a>. Major oil and gas companies are some of the biggest backers of carbon capture technologies, and the worldwide advocacy group promoting them – the Global CCS Institute – counts oil majors like Chevron, ExxonMobil, BP, Shell, and TotalEnergies among its members.</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:1.5rem;margin-bottom:1.5rem;font-size:16px">While big polluters publicly tout CCS as a viable climate solution, <a href="https://www.desmog.com/2023/02/13/exxon-shell-bp-api-concerns-carbon-capture/" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;text-decoration-line:none">internally they acknowledge</a> that it perpetuates their extractive operations and is costly and inefficient. Many climate and environmental justice advocates say that CCS is an expensive<a href="https://www.foodandwaterwatch.org/the-carbon-capture-scam/" target="_blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;text-decoration-line:none"> boondoggle</a> that entails risks at every stage of operation, from capture to transport to injection for supposedly permanent storage. At each of these stages, communities are battling against CCS companies to voice their opposition to becoming neighbors to these potentially dangerous operations.</p></span></div></div></div></div></div></div>