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Date: September 08, 2023 at 10:11:20
From: chatillon, [DNS_Address]
Subject: END to “green” carbon capture pipeline scheme |
URL: https://www.newstarget.com/2023-09-07-south-dakota-regulators-end-green-carbon-capture.html |
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In a rare victory for We the People, government
regulators in the state of South Dakota have
unanimously shot down efforts by carbon capture firm
Navigator to rip up the state's farms as part of the
Left's overarching anti-carbon "green" agenda.
In case you missed it, South Dakota farmers have been
under attack by the climate cult, which wants to seize
their land and turn it into a massive network of carbon
capture pipelines.
News of the plan went viral, prompting widespread
public outrage over the ease with which the "green"
cult was seemingly gaining control over private
property in South Dakota. Then we found out that the
South Dakota Public Utilities Commission (SDPUC) was
not going to roll over without a fight.
According to reports, the SDPUC rejected Navigator's
carbon dioxide (CO2) permit application for the
project, which is now dead on arrival. The regulator
ruled that Navigator did not adequately demonstrate
certain standards of proof that are necessary to
justify the carbon capture and storage (CCS) project.
Landowner concerns also played a primary role in the
SDPUC decision as all three commissioners at the
regulator are in agreement that Navigator does not have
the legal right to steal people's land for its project,
even if it offers a cash bribe.
"Perhaps most telling to me are the percentage of
landowners who have made conscious decisions to say,
'No, thank you,' to the money offered for this event
because they're not willing to trade their welfare for
dollars and cents," commented Chris Nelson, one of the
three SDPUC commissioners who ruled against the carbon
capture pipeline scheme.
Just to be clear, this ruling does not mean that
Navigator is prohibited from ever again trying to
reapply for the same permit. There is still a chance,
in other words, that South Dakota could become ground
zero for the anti-carbon agenda of the greenies.
The hope is that it will be a lot harder for Navigator
and other companies like it to obtain such permits now
that the general public is aware of the scheme and what
it entails.
According to NationalGrid, CCS technology "involves the
capture of carbon dioxide emissions from industrial
processes, such as steel and cement production, or from
the burning of fossil fuels in power generation." That
carbon "is then transported from where it was produced,
via ship or in a pipeline, and stored deep underground
in geological formations."
Navigator's planned CCS project involves capturing and
sequestering carbon via pipelines running through South
Dakota, Iowa and Illinois.
"Think of a daily mindset of landowners: Is there a
leak? Will I know? How can I protect my family?"
commented SDPUC chairwoman Kristie Fiegen about other
landowner concerns pertaining to the proposed project.
A spokesperson from the SDPUC confirmed the unanimous
vote by the regulator to not grant Navigator its
requested permit, to which Navigator responded with the
following:
"While we are disappointed with the recent decision to
deny our permit application in South Dakota, our
company remains committed to responsible infrastructure
development. We will evaluate the written decision of
the Public Utilities Commission once issued and
determine our course of action in South Dakota
thereafter. Our commitment to environmental stewardship
and safety remains unwavering, and we will continue to
pursue our permitting processes in the other regions we
operate in."
Several members of the general public added to the
conversation that there is a much cheaper and more
effective way to capture CO2: simply plant more trees,
which breathe in CO2 and release oxygen for humans and
animals to breathe – case closed.
The latest news about the carbon capture scam can be
found at GreenTyranny.news.
Sources for this article include:
DailyCaller.com
NaturalNews.com
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Date: September 09, 2023 at 09:02:07
From: Redhart, [DNS_Address]
Subject: NewsTarget: tinfoil hat rated/quackery pseudosci/low cred/CTs |
URL: https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/news-target/ |
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Overall, we rate News Target a quackery level
pseudoscience and a tin foil hat conspiracy website, as
well as extreme right-wing biased. This is one of the
most discredited sources on the internet.
Detailed Report
Bias Rating: CONSPIRACY-PSEUDOSCIENCE
Factual Reporting: LOW
Country: USA
MBFC’s Country Freedom Rating: MOSTLY FREE
Media Type: Website
Traffic/Popularity: Minimal Traffic
MBFC Credibility Rating: LOW CREDIBILITY
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Date: September 08, 2023 at 10:21:22
From: chatillon, [DNS_Address]
Subject: The Great Green Con |
URL: https://greentyranny.news/2023-09-06-gates-to-address-global-warming-by-chopping-trees.html |
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Business magnate Bill Gates wants to tackle what
climate alarmists have been cautioning people about –
global warming – by cutting trees down and burying
them. These, according to him, will reduce carbon
emissions and cool down the planet.
In a recent episode of EpochTV‘s “Crossroads,” award-
winning investigative reporter Joshua Philipp discussed
how Gates is carrying out another globalist push to
depopulate – only from an entirely different angle:
taking down the forest, tucking the trees “six feet
under” and regulating the “free oxygen” people breathe.
Gates and other investors are betting Kodama Systems,
which describes itself as an innovator in forest
restoration, can reduce carbon dioxide (CO2) in the air
by chopping down trees and burying them. The said
forest management company has raised $6.6 million in a
series of seed funding from Gates’ climate fund
Breakthrough Energy Ventures, as well as Congruent
Ventures and other investors.
The scientists added that burying trees can save the
environment as it can reduce global warming and
wildfires. They believe that forests and trees are a
fire hazard. “I don’t know where they’re finding these
scientists, by the way,” the podcast host stated.
“Normally a lumberjack cuts trees to sell the lumber to
build houses. They are arguing that they want to rather
than sell the timber, take all the wood and just bury
it because they are saying that is a better solution.
And so, in other words, this is business. Because they
are getting money to create carbon offsets and this is
what Bill Gates is financing.”
He also added that the U.S. Forest Services aims to
thin out 70 million acres of Western forest, mostly in
California in the next decade, extracting more than one
billion tons of bone-dry biomass. Usually, after such
forest thinning, logs of marketable size go to
sawmills, with most of the rest piled up and later
burned under controlled conditions. But Kodama wants to
bury the leftovers in earthen vaults designed to
maintain dry and anoxic (oxygen-free) conditions and
protect the wood from rotting or burning.
Meanwhile, as per the U.S. Department of Agriculture
(USDA), trees absorb and store CO2 in their fibers,
helping clean the air. According to the Arbor Day
Foundation, a mature tree absorbs more than 48 pounds
of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere in one year and
releases oxygen in exchange. “So, you’d actually want
more trees. If you actually believe the climate change
narrative, you’d actually think that the solution is to
plant more trees,” Philipp pointed out.
However, Gates still bankrolled Kodama’s drive in a
“stealth effort to bury wood for carbon removal.” The
way this racket works is that they are creating a
product claiming to offset carbon emissions, and the
“creator of the project” gets paid by certain states
for the “saleable carbon offsets” and maybe someday tax
credits, the host explained. (Related: Unmasking the
Great Reset: Schwab, Gates, and the sinister WEF plot
to depopulate the world using COVID vaccines & climate
change lies.)
Follow the money: Biomass burial is a “promising”
industry
Along with the seed money, Kodama has already received
$1.1 million in grants from California’s forest fire
agency and others, as well as purchase commitments for
the carbon credits tied to the first 400 tons of trees
it buries. Those credits could fetch $200 a ton.
In addition, payments company Stripe also provided a
$250,000 research grant to the company and its research
partner, the Yale Carbon Containment Lab, as part of a
broader carbon removal announcement. That grant will
support a pilot effort to bury waste biomass harvested
from California forests and study how well it prevents
the release of greenhouse gases, the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology (MIT) Review reported.
It also agreed to purchase about 415 tons of carbon
dioxide eventually sequestered by the company for
another $250,000, if that proof-of-concept project
achieves specific benchmarks.
“Biomass burial has the potential to become a low-cost,
high-scale approach for carbon removal, though there is
a need for further investigation into its long-term
durability,” said Joanna Klitzke, procurement and
ecosystem strategy lead for Stripe.
For the last several years, the financial firm has pre-
purchased tons of carbon dioxide that startups aim to
eventually draw out of the air and permanently
sequester, in an effort to help build up a carbon
removal industry. It has also helped establish a
different model for counteracting corporate climate
emissions that goes beyond simply purchasing carbon
credits from popular offset projects, such as those
that involve planting trees.
Visit Globalism.news for more news about the dubious
plans and actions of globalists like Bill Gates.
Watch the video below that talks about how Gates
spearheads the cutting and burying of trees.
[see video within link - c]
This video is from the TNTVNEWS channel on
Brighteon.com.
More related stories:
Bill Gates flies around Australia for climate change
lectures in $70m private jet that guzzles fossil fuels.
Climate insanity: Bill Gates invests in Aussie firm
looking to address COW BURPS.
Check has cleared: U.S. Chamber of Commerce formally
surrenders to Bill Gates and globalism.
Video shows Bill Gates admitting “clean energy” solving
climate change is a SCAM.
Sources include:
En-Volve.com
Twitter.com
100PercentFedUp.com
USDA.gov
TechnologyReview.com
Brighteon.com
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Date: September 09, 2023 at 09:11:52
From: Redhart, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: The Great Green Con |
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half the articles at this site are bashing/attacking
bill gates for something (as if that's what it exists
for), and the rest is anti-climate change ...
As you can see by the sources it links to the story
(Epoch, Brighteon, etc) One should use caution as it's
obviously a climate denier site to the max full of
denialism and CTs and bad science.
no listing on media bias, but it's clear this probably
belongs on wowows.
...moving on...
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Date: September 08, 2023 at 12:18:28
From: Eve, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: The Great Green Con |
URL: https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/12/15/1065016/a-stealth-effort-to-bury-wood-for-carbon-removal-has-just-raised-millions/ |
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A stealth effort to bury wood for carbon removal has just raised millions
Kodama has raised more than $6 million from Bill Gates’ climate fund and other investors, as it pursues new ways to reduce wildfire risks and lock away carbon in harvested trees.o
By James Temple
December 15, 2022
A California startup is pursuing a novel, if simple, plan for ensuring that dead trees keep carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere for thousands of years: burying their remains underground.
Kodama Systems, a forest management company based in the Sierra Nevada foothills town of Sonora, has been operating in stealth mode since it was founded last summer. But MIT Technology Review can now report
the company has raised around $6.6 million from Bill Gates’s climate fund Breakthrough Energy Ventures, as well as Congruent Ventures and other investors.
In addition, the payments company Stripe will reveal on Thursday that it’s provided a $250,000 research grant to the company and its research partner, the Yale Carbon Containment Lab, as part of a broader
carbon removal announcement. That grant will support a pilot effort to bury waste biomass harvested from California forests in the Nevada desert and study how well it prevents the release of greenhouse gases
that drive climate change.
It also agreed to purchase about 415 tons of carbon dioxide eventually sequestered by the company for another $250,000, if that proof-of-concept project achieves certain benchmarks.
“Biomass burial has the potential to become a low-cost, high-scale approach for carbon removal, though there is a need for further investigation into its long-term durability,” said Joanna Klitzke,
procurement and ecosystem strategy lead for Stripe.
For the last several years, Stripe has pre-purchased tons of carbon dioxide that startups aim to eventually draw out of the air and permanently sequester, in an effort to help build up a carbon removal
industry. It has also helped establish a different model for counteracting corporate climate emissions that goes beyond simply purchasing carbon credits from popular offsets projects, such as those that
involve planting trees, which have come under growing scrutiny.
A handful of research groups and startups have begun exploring the potential to lock up the carbon in wood, by burying or otherwise storing tree remains in ways that slow down decomposition.
Trees are naturally efficient at sucking down vast amounts of carbon dioxide from the air, but they release the carbon again when they die and rot on the ground. Sequestering trees underground could
prevent this. If biomass burial works as well as hoped, it may provide a relatively cheap and easy way to pull down some share of the billions of tons of greenhouse gas that studies find may need to be
removed to keep global temperatures in check in the coming decades.
But until it’s been done on large scales and studied closely, it remains to be seen how much it will cost, how much carbon it could store, and how long and reliably it may keep greenhouse gases out of the
atmosphere.
Dead wood
Forest experts have long warned that decades of overly aggressive fire suppression policies in the US have produced dense, overgrown forests that significantly increase the risk of major conflagrations when
wildfires inevitably occur. Climate change has exacerbated those dangers by creating hotter and drier conditions.
Following a series of devastating fire years across the West, a number of states are increasingly funding efforts to clear out forests to reduce those dangers. That includes removing undergrowth, cutting
down trees, or using controlled burns to break up the landscape and prevent fires from reaching forest crowns.
States are expected to produce more and more forest waste from these efforts as climate change accelerates in the coming years, says Justin Freiberg, managing director of the Yale Carbon Containment Lab,
which has been conducting field trials exploring a number of “wood carbon containment” approaches under different conditions for several years.
But today, the harvested plants and trees are generally piled up in cleared areas and then left to rot or deliberately burned. That allows the carbon stored in them to simply return to the atmosphere,
driving further warming.
Kodama hopes to address both the wildfire dangers and the emissions challenge. The company says it’s developing automated ways of thinning out overcrowded forests that will make the process cheaper and
faster (though it’s not yet discussing this part of the business in detail). After stripping off the limbs from trees too small to be sold for timber, they’ll load them into trucks and ship them to a
prepared pit.
Small logs and other biomass collected by Kodama.
KODAMA SYSTEMS
The key will be to ensure that what the company refers to as a “wood vault” keeps out oxygen and water that would otherwise accelerate decomposition and prevents greenhouse gases from leaking out.
In the field effort with Yale researchers, expected to begin in the third quarter of next year, the company intends to create a burial mound in the Nevada desert that’s seven yards high, three yards deep,
and 58 yards long and across.
They plan to cover the biomass with a geotextile liner and then bury that under soil and a layer of native vegetation selected to absorb moisture. Given the region’s dry conditions, this will create a
contained system that prevents “agents of decomposition from acting on the buried wood mass,” ensuring that the carbon stays in place for thousands of years, says Jimmy Voorhis, head of biomass utilization
and policy at Kodama.
Freiberg adds that they’ll also leave wood exposed at the site and create smaller side vaults designed in different ways. The teams will continue to monitor them and compare decomposition rates and any
greenhouse-gas leakage for years. The teams expect to be able to extrapolate long-term carbon storage estimates from that data, along with other studies and experiments.
Burial costs
Other startups and research efforts are taking different approaches to the problem.
The Australian company InterEarth believes that allowing trees to soak up salty groundwater before burying them will effectively pickle the wood, preserving it for extended periods.
The Carbon Lockdown Project, a public benefits corporation founded by University of Maryland professor Ning Zeng, has proposed creating pits that are lined with clay or other materials with low permeability.
In a paper this year, Zeng and a colleague also highlighted a number of other potential approaches, including storing biomass in frozen sites, underwater, or even in above-ground shelters. His earlier work
found that harvesting and storing wood could potentially remove several billion tons of carbon dioxide a year at a cost of well below $100 a ton.
But there are still many unknowns.
“We have to recognize that the science of wood harvesting and storage is still evolving,” says Daniel Sanchez, chief scientist for biomass carbon removal and storage at Carbon Direct, which evaluates carbon
removal efforts and corporate climate plans. “Most importantly, our understanding of what drives or doesn’t drive decomposition of wood needs to be refined.”
On top of that, residents and environmental groups are often opposed to forest thinning. Sawing down trees and removing them from the steep slopes of dense forests is a laborious and costly process that will
be difficult to automate effectively. Hauling around bulky tree remains and digging big holes is also expensive and requires a lot of energy.
The climate emissions produced by removing, transporting, and burying wood will need to be carefully tallied and counted against the total carbon stored.
KODAMA SYSTEMS
Finally, there’s the question of acquiring the necessary waste biomass.
A 2020 study by Lawrence Livermore National Lab found plenty to go around for these sorts of purposes today, estimating that 56 million “bone dry” tons of waste biomass are produced each year just in
California from agriculture, logging, fire prevention, and other activities. (Wood is about 50% carbon by mass.)
But demands for it are set to rise as startups like Kodama, Mote Hydrogen, and Charm all seek out these sources for various biomass-related carbon removal efforts and the world races to achieve ambitious
climate targets.
There’s some risk that eventually all these efforts could create perverse incentives to remove more trees or agricultural material than necessary for fire prevention or healthy for ecosystems. After all,
removing biomass also reduces the levels of nutrients that forests and farms get from rotting plants.
Kodama says it has done economic and carbon assessments for its full process. It’s confident that it can achieve costs below $100 a ton of carbon, and estimates that emissions from the pilot project will
only reduce the net amount of carbon ultimately sequestered by about 15%.
Merritt Jenkins, the company’s cofounder and chief executive, says they plan to earn revenue from their forest thinning work, as well as by selling usable timber and carbon credits from its burial projects.
But Yale’s Freiberg stresses that the critical mission of the moment is to use that Stripe grant to help answer these “big scientific questions around burial biomass … and demonstrate that this is indeed a
solution worth backing.”
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