EXTRACTED: Daily News Clips 11/12/25

PIPELINE NEWS

• North Dakota Monitor: Standing Rock Sioux Tribe argues against pipeline lawsuit dismissal in latest DAPL filing

• Waverly Newspapers: Summit Carbon to host Waverly open house Nov. 12

• Morgan Messenger: Columbia Gas expansion project from Fulton to Morgan County cost $46 million, nearly double original estimate

• Carbon Herald: Greece Advances $4.2 Billion Carbon Capture And Pipeline Project

• Lincolnshire Today: Consultation launched on carbon capture pipeline to drive Humber decarbonisation and economic growth

WASHINGTON UPDATES

• Associated Press: Voters’ anger at high electricity bills and data centers looms over 2026 midterms

• E&E News: Bipartisan lawmakers push to save EPA greenhouse gas program

• E&E News: Inside the oil industry’s efforts to sway regulatory comment periods

• E&E News: Feds investigating gas leaks at Maryland LNG site

STATE UPDATES

• Alabama Political Reporter: Covington County lawmakers oppose carbon capture project

• KRIS: City of Ingleside moves forward with first reading for YaREN ammonia project

• Omaha World-Herald: With energy demand surging, OPPD reconsiders retiring coal-fired power units in North Omaha

• Virginia Mercury: Former Gov. McAuliffe joins pro-natural gas group as national co-chair

• Spotlight PA: Democrats may sacrifice climate program to break Pennsylvania’s budget impasse

EXTRACTION

• Bold Energy Builders: When Big Data Comes to Small Town: Data Center Blog Series Part 2

• Bloomberg: The Scientists Who Popularized Carbon Capture Have a Warning About It

• Heatmap: Data Centers and Natural Gas Are Bending the Climate Transition Curve, IEA Says

• Midland Reporter-Telegram: Markets favor natural gas as Permian producers pivot on LNG, data center demand

• Discover Westman: SW Manitoba poised for potentially world’s largest carbon capture facility

CLIMATE FINANCE

• Bloomberg: Utilities Exploring Private Credit in a Potential First

OPINION

• American Press: Carbon capture, sequestration a forever threat

• OilPrice.com: Why America Is Winning the Carbon Capture Race

• New York Daily News: Costly capitulation
  

PIPELINE NEWS

North Dakota Monitor: Standing Rock Sioux Tribe argues against pipeline lawsuit dismissal in latest DAPL filing
Mary Steurer, 11/11/25

“The Standing Rock Sioux Tribe argues in new court documents that a federal judge was wrong to dismiss its latest lawsuit against the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers over the Dakota Access Pipeline,” the North Dakota Monitor reports. “…U.S. District Court Judge James Boasberg dismissed the case in March, finding that the tribe was relitigating claims it already brought before his court in a previous lawsuit filed in 2016… “The tribe disputed Boasberg’s dismissal in new arguments filed last week with the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals. “This appeal is a necessary step to hold the Corps accountable for its unlawful actions, to protect our people from the ongoing risks posed by DAPL, and to ensure that our sovereignty is respected,” Standing Rock Sioux Tribe Chair Steve Sitting Bear said in a Friday statement. Standing Rock says Boasberg’s dismissal should be reversed because the Army Corps of Engineers’ yearslong inaction on the easement counts as a separate issue the courts haven’t ruled on yet. “These are not challenges to past decisions but to the Corps’ ongoing violations of clear statutory duties,” the tribe wrote in court records.”

Waverly Newspapers: Summit Carbon to host Waverly open house Nov. 12
11/10/25

“A vast majority of landowners along the Summit Carbon Solutions proposed liquefied carbon dioxide pipeline route through Bremer County have not signed easements—as of an Aug. 1 map—and Summit officials hope to convince them to do so from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 12, at the Waverly Civic Center, at 200 First St. NE,”Waverly Newspapers reports. “…Sequestration could be in North Dakota, but with South Dakota blocking eminent domain for carbon pipelines, company officials are exploring other options such as sequestering the CO2 in the Denver-Julesburg Basin, which spans Nebraska, Kansas, Colorado and Wyoming, a company spokesperson told the Bremer County Board of Supervisors on Oct. 7… “The company is promising about $80,000 for emergency response and preparedness, CO2-specific training, annual drills and real-time notification systems. A self-contained breathing apparatus and protective clothing may be required by rescue workers when dealing with CO2, according to a material safety data sheet (MSDS) on liquid carbon dioxide from Praxair, archived by Florida International University.”

Morgan Messenger: Columbia Gas expansion project from Fulton to Morgan County cost $46 million, nearly double original estimate
Kate Shunney, 11/11/25

“The new 3-mile Columbia Gas pipeline put into service in June between Fulton County, Pa. and Morgan County, W.Va. cost double what the company estimated, according to a report filed on November 5 with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC),” the Morgan Messenger reports. “A Final Cost Report was submitted to the federal energy agency for the Eastern Panhandle Expansion project, which was first approved in July of 2018. Delays in permitting on the Maryland side of the Potomac River kept the project on hold until 2024. Construction began on the gas line in October of 2024 and was substantially completed in May of 2025. According to the cost report from TC Energy for Columbia Gas Transmission, LLC, the total cost of the 3.4-mile pipeline project was $45.6 million. It was estimated to cost $24.97 million. In a breakdown of cost differences, Columbia Gas noted that there were “higher than expected” costs due to the unavailability of some material, raised labor costs due to tighter deadlines and additional oversight from management and greater survey costs tied to “complications during the Potomac River HDD crossing.” Columbia also encountered higher costs for land settlements with Fairview-related pond impacts, engineering and inspection costs to reroute the pipeline after a drilling bit blockage stopped the pipeline’s original pathway and outside services.”

Carbon Herald: Greece Advances $4.2 Billion Carbon Capture And Pipeline Project
Violet George, 11/12/25

“Greece is moving forward with a series of large-scale carbon capture and storage (CCS) investments valued at up to €3.6 billion (~$4.2 billion), as the country positions itself to build a national CO2 management network connecting heavy industry with offshore storage under the Aegean Sea,” the Carbon Herald reports. “…The €1.2 billion (~$1.4 billion) project, supported by €270 million ($313 million) from the EU Innovation Fund, is expected to begin drilling in early 2026 pending environmental and permitting approvals from the Ministry of Environment and Energy… “The project secured €169 million in EU Innovation Fund grants, with an initial €700 million ($810 million) investment and future expansion planned. DESFA is developing the system alongside Ecolog, a subsidiary of GasLog… “DESFA is additionally seeking €30 million ($35 million) from the Connecting Europe Facility to build a 35-kilometer (22-mile) CO2 pipeline connecting refineries and industrial hubs in Elefsina, Boeotia, and Aspra Spitia.”

Lincolnshire Today: Consultation launched on carbon capture pipeline to drive Humber decarbonisation and economic growth
11/11/25

“Northern Endurance Partnership (NEP) has launched a statutory consultation for the Humber Carbon Capture Pipeline (HCCP), a proposed underground onshore pipeline with Above Ground Installations (AGIs) and a Pump Facility,” Lincolnshire Today reports. “The pipeline would transport CO₂ captured by carbon capture projects across the Humber to permanent secure storage under the North Sea… “Due to its scale, HCCP is classed as a Nationally Significant Infrastructure Project (NSIP) under the Planning Act 2008, which means it will follow a national planning process rather than a standard local one.”

WASHINGTON UPDATES

Associated Press: Voters’ anger at high electricity bills and data centers looms over 2026 midterms
Marc Levy, Jesse Bedayn, 11/8/25

“Voter anger over the cost of living is hurtling forward into next year’s midterm elections, when pivotal contests will be decided by communities that are home to fast-rising electric bills or fights over who’s footing the bill to power Big Tech’s energy-hungry data centers,” the Associated Press reports. “Electricity costs were a key issue in this week’s elections for governor in New Jersey and Virginia, a data center hotspot, and in Georgia, where Democrats ousted two Republican incumbents for seats on the state’s utility regulatory commission. Voters in New Jersey, Virginia, California and New York City all cited economic concerns as the top issue, as Democrats and Republicans gird for a debate over affordability in the intensifying midterm battle to control Congress… “Front and center may be electricity bills, which in many places are increasing at a rate faster than U.S. inflation on average — although not everywhere… “Rising electric costs aren’t expected to ease and many Americans could see an increase on their monthly bills in the middle of next year’s campaigns… “With some 80 million Americans struggling to pay their utility bills, “it’s a life or death and ‘eat or heat’ type decision that people have to make,” Charles Hua, founder of consumer advocacy organization PowerLines, told AP.”

E&E News: Bipartisan lawmakers push to save EPA greenhouse gas program
Amelia Davidson, 11/12/25

“Congressional lawmakers are pushing back on Trump administration plans to end greenhouse gas reporting requirements for top polluters,” E&E News reports. “At least one Republican has joined the flurry of members wanting the administration to save the Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program (GHGRP), which has tracked the climate emissions of major polluters for the last 15 years… “Sens. Kevin Cramer (R-N.D.) and Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.), ranking member of the Environment and Public Works Committee, joined forces in a letter to EPA. They called the reporting program necessary to demonstrate that American exports are cleaner than global competitors like China.”

E&E News: Inside the oil industry’s efforts to sway regulatory comment periods
Shelby Webb, 11/12/25

“An advocacy group funded by the American Petroleum Institute has helped hundreds of people write and rehearse comments to government agencies in favor of decisions that could benefit the oil industry’s bottom line,” E&E News reports. “Energy Citizens has launched mass mobilization efforts in recent years to influence agencies at both the federal and state level. It helped supporters draft oral comments urging EPA to grant Louisiana and Texas permitting authority over carbon dioxide sequestration wells. More recently, the group rallied dozens of people in New Mexico to write and offer oral comments against a proposed state rule requiring oil and gas operators to pay higher insurance bonds. Such efforts are not uncommon in the regulatory world, where advocacy groups sometimes provide their supporters with form letters that can flood an agency’s docket. But Energy Citizens’ efforts have prompted environmental groups to accuse the oil industry of spreading misinformation, at a time when the Trump administration is rolling back pollution rules and challenging accepted climate science to help the industry “drill, baby, drill.” “…API is proud to amplify the voices of millions of Americans who recognize the importance of U.S. energy leadership and to keep them informed of the state, local and federal issues that impact their everyday lives,” spokesperson Bethany Williams told E&E. Some environmental groups have said Energy Citizens’ efforts amount to a form of astroturfing — or organizing efforts to make it appear there is more support for an issue than actually exists.”

E&E News: Feds investigating gas leaks at Maryland LNG site
Mike Soraghan, 11/12/25

“Federal safety officials are investigating leaking ethane near two storage tanks at a Maryland liquefied natural gas export terminal and have asked that they be taken out of service,” E&E News reports. “But officials at Cove Point LNG, the largest LNG export facility on the East Coast, said the 40-gallon underground ethane tanks are “safe to operate under the current conditions.” “The leaks in the ethane storage area never posed an unsafe condition for our employees, community, or our facility,” Cove Point spokesperson Samantha Norris told E&E. The Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration issued a notice of a proposed safety order in mid-October requesting that the facility stop operating the tanks.”

STATE UPDATES

Alabama Political Reporter: Covington County lawmakers oppose carbon capture project
11/12/25

“Two Covington County lawmakers have announced their opposition to a proposed carbon capture and underground injection project planned for the southern part of the county,” according to the Alabama Political Reporter. “State Sen. Josh Carnley, R-Ino, and Rep. Matthew Hammett, R-Andalusia, said Tuesday they will work to block the Pine Hills Carbon Storage Hub, a project proposed by Reliant Carbon Capture & Storage… “Hammett has prefiled House Bill 64, a local constitutional amendment that would prohibit EPA Class V and Class VI carbon storage sites in Covington County. Carnley plans to carry the measure in the Senate during the next legislative session. Local officials and residents have expressed concerns about the project’s potential impacts on groundwater safety, property rights and long-term oversight… “Carnley described the proposal as unproven technology that could pose environmental and economic risks to the area… “Hammett said he shares those concerns and questioned whether the project would benefit the community… “The two lawmakers said they have contacted the Alabama Department of Environmental Management, the State Oil and Gas Board and the Governor’s Office of Energy Policy to explore how the state might exercise oversight over carbon storage projects.”

KRIS: City of Ingleside moves forward with first reading for YaREN ammonia project
Adam Beam, 11/11/25

“Hundreds of residents from Ingleside and other areas of the Coastal Bend filled City Hall and the nearby community center for a public hearing on the special use permit for Project YaREN,” KRIS reports. “YaREN is a proposed blue ammonia facility planned at the Enbridge Ingleside Energy Center.vThe ordinance would grant a special use permit for the construction and operation of the facility on more than 200 acres located at 1450 Lexington Blvd, including piers and dock structures extending into Corpus Christi Bay, according to the meeting agenda. Cora Rose, a resident of Ingleside on the Bay, told KRIS she has opposed the project since moving to the community three years ago. “I have concerns about the safety aspect, the track history of the companies that are building this and the lack of knowledge surrounding carbon capture,” Rose told KRIS. She added that she was upset to learn the council moved the permit forward. “Ingleside doesn’t want to hear what those surrounding people, the surrounding communities that are also affected by the project have to say.” “…Captain Kelly, owner of Dolphin Connection Ingleside, told KRIS her business depends entirely on the health of the bay and surrounding wildlife. Kelly attended Monday’s meeting and called the vote “disappointing.” “…The Ingleside City Council will take up the second reading of the special use permit on Tuesday, December 9.”

Omaha World-Herald: With energy demand surging, OPPD reconsiders retiring coal-fired power units in North Omaha
Julie Anderson, 11/11/25

“With energy demand outpacing generation and a steep new winter power reserve pending, members of the Omaha Public Power District board likely will discuss options for the utility’s North Omaha power station when they meet next week,” the Omaha World-Herald reports. “Among the choices the board likely will weigh are to stay the course and stick with a decade-old plan to retire three natural gas units at the plant and convert two remaining coal-fired units to natural gas — or to extend the current operations… “But Javier Fernandez, the utility’s president and CEO, told the World-Herald the realities facing the utility have continued to change — and change quickly. The demand for electricity has never been higher, driven by the electrification of homes and cars and demand from data centers and other big industrial power users. Board members have been discussing the matter for months and likely will take those talks public during committee meetings Nov. 18… “During those months, North Omaha residents and environmentalists have been urging the utility to keep its promise to end coal-fired generation at the plant… “State Sen. Terrell McKinney, who represents part of the area, told the World-Herald his biggest concern is that the utility might break its promise to the community, which has been feeling the health impacts from the plant. And rates might still go up. “I think it’s disingenuous that they’re considering delaying the transition of the coal plan again,” he told the World-Herald , noting that the plan has been in motion since 2014. “It’s hard for the community to be able to trust them moving forward.” McKinney told the World-Herald he met with OPPD officials Monday. He has collected nearly 1,000 signatures on a petition calling on the utility to stick to its commitment. McKinney also serves as land justice director for Bold Alliance, a group that got its start organizing rural alliances to fight oil pipelines… “Extending as-is operations at North Omaha, Fernandez told the World-Herald, wouldn’t solve all of the utility’s challenges. “But it’s an incredible first foundational piece that needs to be resolved,” he told the World-Herald,. “We need all the generation and all the resources we can get as fast as we can get them.”

Virginia Mercury: Former Gov. McAuliffe joins pro-natural gas group as national co-chair
Shannon Heckt, 11/12/25

“Former Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe has joined Natural Allies for a Clean Energy Future as a co-chair to promote natural gas as a route to long-term energy reliability as renewable energy sources are built out, the organization announced Tuesday,” the Virginia Mercury reports. “The organization promotes moving away from coal burning plants and using natural gas to reliably support solar and wind power generation. Touted as advocates for an “all of the above” energy profile, the group is expanding their reach into the commonwealth to promote gas power alongside renewable energy in hopes to bring down utility bills while cutting emissions, despite the commonwealth’s plan to eventually eliminate fossil fuels. “As a Virginian who knows the importance of natural gas to my Commonwealth’s economy, I believe that we must come together to secure a reliable and affordable energy future,” McAuliffe said in a statement.”

Spotlight PA: Democrats may sacrifice climate program to break Pennsylvania’s budget impasse
Stephen Caruso, 11/10/25

“Gov. Josh Shapiro and Democratic leaders are considering a budget deal that would pull Pennsylvania out of an interstate program that charges power plant operators for releasing carbon into the atmosphere, according to a source with knowledge of discussions,” Spotlight PA reports. “Lawmakers involved in talks to end the four-month budget impasse have been quiet about what is on and off the table, and the exact details of a plan that would formally end the state’s participation in the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) aren’t known. But environmental groups and a handful of Democratic state lawmakers were concerned enough to hold an all-hands-on-deck news conference outside Philadelphia City Hall last week to make their opposition clear. “Some of our leaders seem ready to turn their backs on clean air, climate progress, and the people they were elected to serve for nothing meaningful but a one-year budget,” Patrick McDonnell, the former secretary of Pennsylvania’s environmental department who now leads the conservation group PennFuture, told Spotlight. “It is time to step up,” he added, “not sell out.”

EXTRACTION

Bold Energy Builders: When Big Data Comes to Small Town: Data Center Blog Series Part 2
Kenny Bruno, 11/11/25

“Way back when, about a year ago, we almost never heard a peep about data centers. Now every day its data center this, data center that. To some they are a bogeyman to be opposed outright, to others an inevitable nuisance, to others a hopeful development, and to still others they’re OK as long as they’re powered by clean energy rather than polluting methane gas,” according to Bold Energy Builders. “To the oil and gas industry, they are a pretext to build even more methane burning power plants, because, after all, that is what AI demands, and we can’t possibly deny AI what it “demands.” And we couldn’t possibly meet that “demand” with “alternative” energy like solar and wind. Or could we? In this 3-part blog, we look at the hype in hyperscale data centers. In Part I, we look at Generative AI itself, which is what the new giant data centers are serving. In Part II we look at the numbers behind energy needs for new data centers, and why they will raise electricity bills… “In Part I of this series, we saw that Generative AI has some very serious inherent flaws, including fabrications, scheming and untruthfulness. In other words you can’t trust it because it lies to you. Meanwhile, industry wants you to believe that we must go full speed ahead because of the wonders it will bring, and because, China. Hyperscale are being built mainly to run artificial intelligence (AI) software, but the future of AI is unknown. Is it a bubble? Is it a world-changing technology on a scale never previously seen? Something in between? No one can be sure. Even if the hype is justified, the electricity use may not be that dramatically high. Data centers will undoubtedly become more efficient (performing more calculations using less energy) as time goes on, so future individual data centers may use much less energy than is required today. This implies that some power plants being built today may not be needed.”

Bloomberg: The Scientists Who Popularized Carbon Capture Have a Warning About It
Olivia Rudgard, 11/12/25

“Kenneth Möllersten and Michael Obersteiner came up with a novel idea in 2001 that transformed the math of carbon emissions and the world’s path to net zero by figuring that burning plants could generate energy with negative emissions,” Bloomberg reports. “The concept of negative emissions has become a key element of official emissions-reduction plans, but Möllersten and Obersteiner are not thrilled as they believe carbon capture was meant to cancel out past emissions, not substitute for cuts to fossil fuels. Many countries are relying on carbon removals to reach their net zero goals, which Möllersten and Obersteiner told Bloomberg is problematic as it breeds overconfidence and delays emission reductions, increasing the risk of sudden consequences of climate change… “The problem, they say, is that carbon capture was meant to cancel out past emissions. Instead, it’s bred an overconfidence that the strategy can substitute any hard-to-make cuts to fossil fuels… “We emphasized that the potential of future negative emissions should never be used as an excuse to delay emission reductions,” Obersteiner, who is now director of the Environmental Change Institute at the University of Oxford, told Bloomberg. “We could get access to heaven for trying to solve the climate problem. At the same time, we should go to hell, because we created overshoot.” “Overshoot” is the idea that it’s OK for the world to shoot past climate temperature targets because we can later remove carbon from the atmosphere.”

Heatmap: Data Centers and Natural Gas Are Bending the Climate Transition Curve, IEA Says
Matthew Zeitlin, 11/12/25

“The United States is different when it comes to energy and fossil fuels. While it’s no longer the world’s largest greenhouse gas emitter, no other country combines the United States’ production and consumptive capacity when it comes to oil — and, increasingly, natural gas. And no other country has made such a substantial recent policy U-turn in the past year, turning against renewables deployment at the same time as it is seeing electricity demand leap up thanks to data centers,” Heatmap reports. “All of this is mirrored in the International Energy Agency’s 2025 World Energy Outlook, released Wednesday, which reflects a stark portrait of how America’s development of artificial intelligence and natural gas has made it distinct from its global peers. In combination, the effects of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act and the U.S.’s world-leading artificial intelligence development have meaningfully altered the group’s forecasts of global fossil fuel usage and emissions… “But in both cases, “gas demand continues growing into the 2030s, due mainly to changes in U.S. policies and lower gas prices.” “…Ember attributes this to an “increasing focus on energy security,” with more countries following China in electrifying broader swathes of their economies in order to reduce their dependence on fossil fuel imports like natural gas, coal, and oil — including from the United States.”

Midland Reporter-Telegram: Markets favor natural gas as Permian producers pivot on LNG, data center demand
Mella McEwen, 11/7/25

“In the race to provide energy to the globe, markets are telling oil producers to take a pit stop and are giving the green light to natural gas producers,” the Midland Reporter-Telegram reports. “It follows with East Daley’s contention that oil operators — especially in the Permian — should consider a pivot to investing in gassier benches,” Orin Pilant with East Daley Analytics told the Reporter-Telegram. That comes as his company reports that independent producers and the supermajors are adjusting to a new era of U.S. oil maintenance rather than growth. “In the current oil price environment, there is not much room to grow oil production profitably. Therefore, Permian producers should consider drilling in gassier benches in order to maximize gas production while holding crude production flat. The outlook for gas is much more bullish due to significant LNG and data center demand growth,” he told MRT… “East Daley forecasts approximately 6 billion cubic feet per day of Permian gas growth, while more than 9 Bcf of natural gas pipeline egress has already received final investment decisions, Pilant noted.”

Discover Westman: SW Manitoba poised for potentially world’s largest carbon capture facility
Betty Sawatzky, 11/12/25

“This past summer, the Montreal-based company, Deep Sky, completed their first CO2 capturing plant near Calgary, Alberta,” Discover Westman reports. “The Innisfail, AB, facility, Deep Sky Alpha, began operations this past August when it began to remove 30,000 tonnes of CO2 from the air using a dozen different technologies that are to be used over the first ten years of operation… “An open house in early September drew about a hundred people from the Westman Region to learn more about the proposed project… “With southwest Manitoba having the ideal geological properties and conditions, Deep Sky is currently working together with provincial and municipal governments to build one of the largest facilities in the world right here in Westman with a cost of approximately $200 million… “Our intention was that open house to be the beginning of our journey in terms of our engagement with the community,” Vanderheyden told DW. “We are coming back. We don’t know exactly when. We want to have new information to share hopefully about the hydro study and some of the geology work and hopefully have our site selected.”

CLIMATE FINANCE

Bloomberg: Utilities Exploring Private Credit in a Potential First
Josh Saul, Mark Chediak, and Paula Seligson, 11/10/25

“Two of the biggest power companies in the US have had talks with private credit lenders about raising money in what would be a first for utilities,” Bloomberg reports. “Duke Energy Corp. has spoken with private credit providers about financing pieces of its $87 billion capital plan and Xcel Energy Inc. has also had conversations with private credit firms about its $60 billion plan, executives told Bloomberg. While traditional equity and debt financing work well for the majority of its spending plan, private credit has the potential to be “icing on the cake,” Duke Chief Financial Officer Brian Savoy told Bloomberg… “Xcel has had talks with private credit firms as its capital needs have grown, Chief Executive Officer Bob Frenzel told Bloomberg… “Utility spending is growing rapidly to support the construction of new infrastructure amid rising demand from data centers, artificial intelligence, new factories and economy-wide electrification. US electric companies are projected to spend more than $1.1 trillion over the next five years on the power grid, according to industry group EEI.”

OPINION

American Press: Carbon capture, sequestration a forever threat
Charlie Atherton, Sulphur, 11/11/25

“When carbon dioxide (CO2) is released into our atmosphere, it has no bad health effects on us people. There is no public health or safety reason for taxpayers to pay billions of dollars to remove CO2 from our atmosphere. Carbon capture to make our atmosphere safer is a lie,” Charlie Atherton writes for the American Press. “Releasing CO2 into our atmosphere is safe, carbon capture and sequestration is a continuous forever 24/7 deadly threat to human life. There is no meaningful air monitoring, automatic alarm systems, and no meaningful Emergency Response Plan to warn the public and emergency responders. It is safer for people’s health, safety and welfare to continue releasing the no-problem Carbon Dioxide into the atmosphere. When Carbon Dioxide is sequestrated into our ground by injection wells then our very existence can be destroyed because eventually our sole source drinking water aquifer will be destroyed and our land will become an unhabitable wasteland, thus destroying our culture and way of life while stealing our land at the start… “To those that say carbon dioxide contributes to global warming, we say have China, Russia, an India capture and sequestrate their carbon dioxide first. Remember, the atmosphere over China today will be over us tomorrow.”

OilPrice.com: Why America Is Winning the Carbon Capture Race
Leon Stille, 11/11/25

“Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) is no longer a futuristic idea or a climate scientist’s dream, it has become an unavoidable necessity for the sectors that cannot decarbonize through renewables or electrification alone. Cement, steel, refining, chemicals, these industries have one practical path to cutting emissions in the short term: capturing and storing their CO?. Yet while the United States is rapidly turning that vision into reality, Europe continues to wrestle with frameworks, regulations, and price signals that fail to deliver,” Leon Stille writes for OilPrice.com. “The difference is not technical. It is financial. And at its core, it is political… “His comparative assessment of CCS economics in the United States and Europe shows in stark terms how policy design, not technology, is driving deployment on one side of the Atlantic and paralysis on the other. In the United States, the 45Q tax credit provides a simple, bankable incentive: $85 for every ton of CO? captured and permanently stored… “Europe tells a different story. Capture costs in key industries, cement, refining, steel, are generally higher, often between $80 and $150 per ton. Even the lowest-cost examples, such as cement at around $87 per ton, are already on the edge of the European carbon price, which recently fluctuated between $60 and $110 per ton. That margin leaves little room for uncertainty. And uncertainty, unfortunately, is what Europe excels at… “The American system builds momentum through clarity. The 45Q credit can be monetized, traded, and financed.”

New York Daily News: Costly capitulation
Sara Gronim, Brooklyn, 11/12/25

“New York’s DEC has contorted the facts about the huge fracked gas pipeline, the Northeast Supply Enhancement project, proposed by the Oklahoma-based energy company Williams,” Sara Gronim writes for the New York Daily News. “The DEC denied it in 2018, 2019 and 2020 because of its threat to the health of New Yorkers and to local marine life. But its revised analysis allowed Gov. Hochul to approve the pipeline. Hochul has said she cares deeply about affordability, but the cost of this multi-billion-dollar project will fall squarely on National Grid’s customers. She has said she cares about the law, but this project would violate the state mandate to transition from fracked gas to renewable energy and laws protecting us from pollution.”