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Before Trump, CCS was a key component of government policies cutting carbon emissions.
Now, with Trump elected and nominating a CCS-proponent, Doug Burgum, CCS is considered by some to be an untested boondoggle.
From the linked article:
For some climate activists, carbon capture is a ruse by the fossil fuel sector to forestall the much-needed transition to renewable energy and allow oil companies in some cases to inject carbon dioxide underground to help extract even more petroleum.
For others, pumping carbon dioxide underground is a threat to the property rights of farmers, ranchers and other landowners. “We don’t need to be a dumping ground for everybody’s carbon,” said Scott Skokos, executive director of the Dakota Resource Council, a conservation and farming group that opposes several carbon-capture projects in the state.
“Ultimately, all that carbon is going to be stored underneath a bunch of different farms and you just never know in 20, 30, 40 years if those storage wells are going to hold up or not.”
Now Burgum and his new boss must decide whether to embrace or shun the low-carbon tech that the oil industry loves.
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