9/30/24

Utilities are not your friends: a tale of two pipelines

Human history in North America is sacred to those who were here first but to utilities not so much.

Catlinite is a variety of argillite found as an aggregate of Sioux Quartzite and named for American painter George Catlin who visited the quarries near Pipestone, Minnesota in 1835 where Indigenous peoples have worked since at least 1637. The Monument is still an oasis but now it's surrounded by sprawl, Republicans, glyphosate-saturated cornfields and overkill concentrated animal feeding operations or CAFOs. 

Summit Carbon Solutions wants to dig a ditch for a $4.5 billion pipeline vulnerable to rupture and rip up over two thousand miles of unceded tribal lands where thousands of Indigenous Americans are buried then pump carbon dioxide to some sacrifice zone in occupied North Dakota ostensibly to be sequestered.
 
So, how is it that Republicans are militantly divided over the utility of eminent domain for private enterprise for pipelines to move CO2 but are just fine with employing it for the entrepreneurial transport of oil and gas?
The Minnesota Public Utilities Commission (PUC) during a Sept. 12 meeting approved with a 3-2 vote a pipeline route permit allowing Magellan to install a pipeline to the west and north of Pipestone. Representatives of Magellan said the pipeline was needed to restore services from Sioux Falls to Marshall and overcome reliability issues in the system, reduce transportation costs for gasoline, and handle specialty fuels as well as gasoline, diesel and jet fuel delivered to western Minnesota, eastern North Dakota and eastern South Dakota. [Pipestone County Star]
Magellan is under fire from Colorado residents, too. 

Imagine these projects going through cemeteries where people of European descent are buried.
....RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 1 PM THIS AFTERNOON TO 8 PM CDT THIS EVENING FOR WIND AND LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHEASTERN SOUTH DAKOTA, NORTHWESTERN IOWA, SOUTHWESTERN MINNESOTA, AND NORTHEASTERN NEBRASKA...
Learn more at Minnesota Public Radio.
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