The Day The Music Died -- March 10, 2026

Locator: 50182CO2. 

Tag: CO2 injection storage. 

Link here. 

How can drilling a CO2 injection well be unconstitutional?

 So, is this an old story, from December 3, 2025, or is there something new?

Canceled: CO2 Navigator Pipeline Across Five Flyover States -- October 20, 2023

Locator: 45842ESG.

"Energy transition is dead, we just don't know it yet" -- Peter Zeihan, link here. 

Link here -- although this really isn't "only" a CO2-environmental-green-ESG story.

CO2 has applications in EOR -- enhanced oil recovery. But in this case, no EOR opportunities, so ESG .... green ... woke ...

Whatever.

 I guess it's more of a NIMBY story than anything.

From the linked article;

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — A company on Friday said it would cancel its plans for a 1,300-mile (2,092-kilometer) pipeline across five Midwestern states that would have gathered carbon dioxide emissions from ethanol plants and buried the gas deep underground.

Navigator CO2 Ventures’ Heartland Greenway project is among a handful of similar ventures supported by the renewable fuels industry and farming organizations, but many landowners and environmental groups oppose the pipelines and question their safety and effectiveness in reducing climate-warming gases.

.... “unpredictable nature of the regulatory and government processes involved, particularly in South Dakota and Iowa” were key to the decision to cancel the project.

.... more than 20 plants across Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, Nebraska and South Dakota for permanent storage deep underground in Illinois.

It sounds this was all about keeping corn prices high.

“It is not an overstatement to say that decisions made over the next few months will likely place agriculture on one of two paths. One would lead to 1990s stagnation as corn production exceeds demand, and the other opens new market opportunities larger than anything we’ve ever seen before,” he said in a statement.

This should help tame inflation. 

Pork and chicken prices should plummet. Maybe not beef.

The Broom Formation -- CO2 Storage -- North Dakota

Locator: 44663CO2. 

I count 57 sections in this NDIC case for CO2 storage. Link here.

Again, this is a "case," and not a "permit."

See "strat column NDGS." 

Broom Creek formation, North Dakota:

The collision of North America and Europe as Pangea began to form kicked off the Caledonian orogeny and realigned the Williston Basin opening to the sea in the west rather than the north.

During the maximum extent of the sea, the Lodgepole and Mission Canyon formations took shape. A dry period precipitated Charles Formation evaporites, followed by Big Snowy Group carbonates, sand and shale. The ancestral Rocky Mountains began to rise around this time, bringing the Otter Formation shales and then draining the sea and uplifting the land.

After a 10 million year dry period, shallow water crept back in during the Pennsylvanian beginning the Absaroka Sequence with Tyler Formation sandstone and shale, overlain by carbonates and brown clastic rocks in the Amsden Formation and Broom Creek Formation sandy carbonates.

Another 10 million years of erosion is marked by an unconformity. Through the Permian, salt and red bed formations filled the Williston Basin belonging to the Opeche and Spearfish formations, along with the Minnekahta Formation limestone.

Mesozoic (251–66 million years ago)

In the Triassic, at the beginning of the Mesozoic, a meteorite struck McKenzie County, rearranging older sediments. Some salt and gypsum remains from the time period, indicative of the vast deserts that covered Pangea at the time.

An unconformity wipes out 45 million years of the early Jurassic before the beginning of the Zuni Sequence.

North Dakota was a low forested landscape experiencing ongoing erosion.

Rivers and streams moving across the eroded Jurassic landscape deposited the sandstone and siltstone Inyan Kara Formation. Thick layers of shale, such as the Pierre Formation, formed in the Western Interior Seaway during a major global marine transgression in the Cretaceous.