Posted on May 8, 2023
Pipelines that would store CO2 beneath Midwest states make some landowners nervous
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Karen Brocklesby describes herself as a farm wife and a mother — but over the past several months, she’s also become somewhat of an activist.
Brocklesby lives in Christian County, Illinois. She’s one of many rural landowners there fighting to keep a company called Navigator Ventures LLC from injecting carbon dioxide beneath her farmland.
“This potential for damaging the water for the future – to me, it just is foolishness. Especially in areas that are good farming areas,” Brockelsby said.
Brockelsby has a list of concerns about carbon sequestration. But chief among them is the worry that sequestered carbon could contaminate the area’s water supply.
“It would be a danger to both our agriculture production and, even more importantly, to the drinking water for everybody who lives in this area,” she said.
Brocklesby isn’t alone. Christian County is awash in signs and billboards urging residents to protect the aquifer from pipeline projects.
Brocklesby lives in Christian County, Illinois. She’s one of many rural landowners there fighting to keep a company called Navigator Ventures LLC from injecting carbon dioxide beneath her farmland.
“This potential for damaging the water for the future – to me, it just is foolishness. Especially in areas that are good farming areas,” Brockelsby said.
Brockelsby has a list of concerns about carbon sequestration. But chief among them is the worry that sequestered carbon could contaminate the area’s water supply.
“It would be a danger to both our agriculture production and, even more importantly, to the drinking water for everybody who lives in this area,” she said.
Brocklesby isn’t alone. Christian County is awash in signs and billboards urging residents to protect the aquifer from pipeline projects.
Pipelines that would store CO2 beneath Midwest states make some landowners nervous
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PO1 William "Chip" Nagel
Lt Col Charlie Brown I Just Keep Envisioning "Soda Stream" coming Out of the Faucet!
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In my lifetime I've been passionate about some things and not even engaged in others. As an "outsider" on this issue, I tend to side with those who have done the homework vs. the "big money" pushing an agenda involving big money (usually accompanied by kickbacks). Keep ringing the alarm Karen Brocklesby! I believe YOU!
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PO1 William "Chip" Nagel
"Three companies are proposing pipelines across the Midwest that would carry carbon dioxide captured from ethanol plants to underground sequestration sites. The plan is to inject the CO2 deep into rock formations under Illinois and North Dakota, but some landowners are pushing back."...
"Three companies are proposing pipelines across the Midwest that would carry carbon dioxide captured from ethanol plants to underground sequestration sites. The plan is to inject the CO2 deep into rock formations under Illinois and North Dakota, but some landowners are pushing back."...
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