Summit Carbon Solutions wants to dig a $4.5 billion pipeline that would rip up some 2000 miles of colonized tribal lands where thousands of Indigenous Americans are buried.
Besides Summit, TPG Rise Climate whose investors include China’s Silk Road and Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund have deep ties to the fossil fuel industry. Summit’s second largest investment is from Continental Resources founded by fracking billionaire Harold Ham and shareholders include BlackRock, Vanguard Group and other wealthy globalists. The biggest beneficiaries are those who want more money, power and control of our land and lives. [Steve Sibson: Money is in control, not us]According to Iowa State University some land impacted by pipelines never recovers from the disturbance.
Ethanol has only two thirds the energy density of gasoline or diesel and less than half of what natural gas contains but has an immensely larger carbon footprint. Few farm with gasoline powered equipment and ethanol is being grown with diesel fuel so how is that either conservative or sustainable?
Summit also faces formidable opposition from Indigenous communities, who were not meaningfully consulted — all too familiar with the devastation such projects bring. They are alarmed by the influx of transient pipeline construction workers. “Man-camps” built to house out-of-state workers for large construction, fossil fuel, or natural resource extraction projects in the past, increased violence towards Indigenous communities, especially women. The report highlights other concerns that the project poses on tribal reservations and Indigenous communities living near the pipeline route, including land degradation, disturbance to sacred sites, and the threat of a pipeline rupture. Commitment to protect the land and their communities is driving the mobilization of Indigenous communities. [The Great Carbon Boondoggle: Inside the Struggle to Stop Summit's CO2 Pipeline]Republican organizations like the South Dakota Cattlemen’s Association and South Dakota Farm Bureau make sure the Prairie Pothole Region is one big eutrophic shit hole and nearly every waterway in the northern Plains states is impaired. State Representative Roger Chase of Beadle County is a member of the SDFB.
Governor Kristi Noem signed SB 201 which some call the "Landowner Bill of Rights" further splitting the South Dakota Republican Party and caving to the Green New Deal.
Now a vocal minority is seeking to repeal benefits for South Dakota landowners. The proponents of a repeal also suggest that these new measures somehow give pipeline companies a “layup” in siting these projects. Regardless of your opinion on carbon sequestration, if the market demands lower carbon and South Dakota farmers and ethanol plants can provide it - that’s a win for the entire state. [Chase: Majority of South Dakota landowners don’t support SB 201 repeal effort]The Green New Deal remains very popular among Americans.
Meanwhile, Lake Mitchell continues to suffer from ag pollution while the city faces a $36 million dredging fix.
Learn more about the death of the SDGOP at the Dakota War Toilet.
Recall Mandatory Country of Origin Labeling or MCOOL was repealed during the second Obama term to shield American commodities from scrutiny because every ag product, meats both wild and domestic not grown organically in the US is contaminated with atrazine and worse. https://t.co/GbWCN9HG6u
— interested party (@larry_kurtz) June 6, 2024
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