Comments on: The EARTH Would Definitely Change if Fossil Fuel Producers Took Back Their Emissions! https://www.frackcheckwv.net/2021/12/21/this-world-will-definitely-change-when-fossil-fuel-producers-take-back-their-emissions/ Just another WordPress site Wed, 14 Feb 2024 02:06:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Mary Wildfire https://www.frackcheckwv.net/2021/12/21/this-world-will-definitely-change-when-fossil-fuel-producers-take-back-their-emissions/#comment-417208 Mary Wildfire Wed, 22 Dec 2021 13:23:13 +0000 https://www.frackcheckwv.net/?p=38316#comment-417208 I like the idea of making emitters responsible, but there's a flaw in this scheme -- carbon capture and carbon storage are NOT cheap, or practical. This is why all focus in the US is on doing this on the taxpayers' dime -- most of the new oil and gas is coming from horizontal fracking, and that has never been profitable for most of the companies -- they just keep borrowing more money to keep going. If they actually had to sequester even half their CO2 -- and methane -- and pay the costs themselves, they'd all go out of business immediately. As for coal, it can't compete with gas or renewables even with no sequestration mandate. And here I've said that neither capture nor sequestration are practical, but that leaves out the network of pipelines to take the captured CO2 from source to wherever they try to bury it -- a network estimated to be perhaps twice the size of the entire existing pipeline network. Obviously not doable, obviously a huge environmental impact, and if you read the HuffPost piece about what happened in Satartia, Mississippi, you know people would never allow these pipelines to be built near them. Yes, it's true that our whole economy runs on fossil fuels and that there is great injustice of the historical big emitters telling the poor countries already being impacted more by climate change that they mustn't gear up with fossil fuels. That's why we continue to do nothing real about this crisis. There ARE practical solutions, real solutions, but they involve radical change, degrowth to the economy, and they won't make the rich richer. So governments will never support them. Mary Wildfire, Roane County, WV I like the idea of making emitters responsible, but there’s a flaw in this scheme — carbon capture and carbon storage are NOT cheap, or practical. This is why all focus in the US is on doing this on the taxpayers’ dime — most of the new oil and gas is coming from horizontal fracking, and that has never been profitable for most of the companies — they just keep borrowing more money to keep going. If they actually had to sequester even half their CO2 — and methane — and pay the costs themselves, they’d all go out of business immediately.

As for coal, it can’t compete with gas or renewables even with no sequestration mandate. And here I’ve said that neither capture nor sequestration are practical, but that leaves out the network of pipelines to take the captured CO2 from source to wherever they try to bury it — a network estimated to be perhaps twice the size of the entire existing pipeline network.

Obviously not doable, obviously a huge environmental impact, and if you read the HuffPost piece about what happened in Satartia, Mississippi, you know people would never allow these pipelines to be built near them.

Yes, it’s true that our whole economy runs on fossil fuels and that there is great injustice of the historical big emitters telling the poor countries already being impacted more by climate change that they mustn’t gear up with fossil fuels. That’s why we continue to do nothing real about this crisis.

There ARE practical solutions, real solutions, but they involve radical change, degrowth to the economy, and they won’t make the rich richer. So governments will never support them.

Mary Wildfire, Roane County, WV

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