This Is So Reassuring On So Many Levels -- Especially The Fact That North Dakota And Wyoming Are Ahead Of The Game -- January 26, 2022

Okay, so ten years ago, the world as we know it was going to end in ten years. [And I think twenty years before that we had only ten years. Whatever.]

Apparently, Greta re-set the clock -- or maybe it was AOC -- and now we have another ten years until the world as we know it ends. 

One would think "we" would want to move at all due haste to "capture carbon" and put it back into the ground. 

But that takes a permit, and that process is controlled by the federal government. 

How long does it take to get a federal permit to do this? 

Six months.

Oh, that's a typo.

Six years.

Yes, in general, it takes six years to get a federal permit to drill a carbon-injection well. 

I can't make this stuff up. Here's the link. 

Top U.S. oil-producing states are trying to wrest oversight of carbon capture wells from federal regulators, hoping to speed the oil industry's preferred approach to combating climate warming amid calls for limits on fossil fuel production.

Companies are proposing carbon capture and storage (CCS) hubs to sequester greenhouse gas emissions from refineries, chemical and natural gas plants, a move that could help slow global warming.

The rules governing the carbon-injection wells for most states require federal approval with the first permits taking around six years to win a green light.

Oil states, including Texas and Louisiana, want to take over permit reviews and enforcement authority, also known as primacy, from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for carbon dioxide (CO2) and other greenhouse gas storages sites.

The third-largest oil producing state, North Dakota, won oversight in 2018 and issued its first permit last year after an eight-month review. New Mexico, the second largest oil producer after Texas, has begun initial discussions with the EPA for applying to regulate carbon sequestration wells 

How can it possibly take six years to review a permit application? .

This tells me all I need to know about the urgency of global warming.

China and Japan have figured this out: they've withdrawn from all global warming protocols, based on their recent actions to ignore international agreements on this subject.

Back to the linked story:

North Dakota this month issued its second carbon-sequestration permit around seven months after utility Minnkota Power Cooperative applied. Its first permit took eight months to win approval. 

The only EPA permits for wells currently in operation — both tied to ethanol maker Archer Daniels Midland — took nearly six years, according to ClearPath.

And another viewpoint.

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