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Fracture in GOP Support of Carbon Capture and Storage in Louisiana

Posted on 4/21/25 at 12:25 pm
Posted by ragincajun03
Member since Nov 2007
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Posted on 4/21/25 at 12:25 pm
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A technology touted by the oil and gas industry as a way to keep drilling but with a lower carbon footprint is facing new opposition from Republican lawmakers in Louisiana, the U.S. epicenter of the push for carbon capture and sequestration.

Environmentalists have long questioned the cost, risks and effectiveness of CCS. But now their critique is being echoed by fossil-fuel friendly Republicans, who increasingly are pressed by homeowners around Louisiana’s Lake Maurepas and elsewhere to stop the roughly 30 CCS projects planned for the state.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis recently called CCS “a scam,” criticizing state GOP lawmakers for pushing the technology.

CCS aims to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by trapping carbon dioxide emissions from industry and injecting them deep underground— or underwater — for permanent storage.

The oil and gas industry also uses CO2 for so-called enhanced oil recovery, which entails injecting pressurized carbon dioxide into wells to free trapped oil, a technique that accounts for about 2% of the nation’s production.

This month, the Republican-controlled Louisiana Legislature will debate a bevy of bills to limit or kill CCS; one is a proposed yearlong moratorium and another is an outright ban.


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Jackson Voss, climate policy coordinator for the New Orleans-based nonprofit Alliance for Affordable Energy, doesn’t think any of the anti-CCS bills stand a chance given the strong lobbying power of the oil and gas industry in Louisiana. And if they were to get traction this legislative session he believes Republican Gov. Jeff Landry would use his influence to block them from ever hitting his desk.

“The anti-CCS position remains an outlier among Republican office-holders, for now, nationally and otherwise,” he said.

As part of his crusade to eviscerate climate-friendly U.S. policies, President Donald Trump may be poised to claw back hundreds of millions of dollars in U.S. Department of Energy funding for a form of CCS called direct-air capture, which pulls carbon from the ambient air. Reuters reported in late March that two direct air capture hubs in Texas and Louisiana — promised over $1 billion in subsidies under the administration of former President Joe Biden — were on a kill list circulating within the DOE.


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Mike Moncla, president of the Louisiana Oil and Gas Association, said Louisiana needs to push forward with its CCS projects if it wants to remain competitive with neighboring states like Texas, which is seeking primacy as well from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to permit the injection wells used for underground CO2 storage.

“They (Texas) will be happy to take on this industry, along with huge projects like Meta and Hyundai that have CCS pieces to their projects,” Moncla said, referring to a proposed multi-billion-dollar data center and an automotive plant both planned for Louisiana.


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The IRA increased tax credits to permanently store carbon from $50 per ton to $85 per ton. The law also offers a $180-a-ton tax credit to developers of direct air capture projects. The fate of those and other clean-energy tax credits remains unclear.


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Posted by kingbob
Sorrento, LA
Member since Nov 2010
68325 posts
Posted on 4/21/25 at 12:29 pm to
Good. Carbon capture is nothing more than a money laundering scam funded by taxpayer money to big oil.
Posted by GBPackTigers
Louisiana
Member since Sep 2009
1423 posts
Posted on 4/21/25 at 12:37 pm to
Nobody can get rich off planting trees. Corruption is a good business to get in. The bought off lawyers with no moral cell in their body can profit as well.
Posted by Limitlesstigers
Lafayette
Member since Nov 2019
3747 posts
Posted on 4/21/25 at 12:41 pm to
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Jackson Voss, climate policy coordinator for the New Orleans-based nonprofit Alliance for Affordable Energy, doesn’t think any of the anti-CCS bills stand a chance given the strong lobbying power of the oil and gas industry in Louisiana. And if they were to get traction this legislative session he believes Republican Gov. Jeff Landry would use his influence to block them from ever hitting his desk.


I took Poli Sci classes with this clown. I doubt that fat gay libtard could change a light bulb or the oil in his car much be a "energy policy expert."

But he is kind of right about CCS, it's outrageously expensive and doesn't take an engineering degree to figure out the math behind it.
This post was edited on 4/21/25 at 12:43 pm
Posted by LazloHollyfeld
Steam Tunnel at UNC-G
Member since Apr 2009
1846 posts
Posted on 4/21/25 at 12:52 pm to
My favorite are the proposed “green” energy projects planning to cut down 500acres of trees to put up solar panels.
Posted by chalmetteowl
Chalmette
Member since Jan 2008
51509 posts
Posted on 4/21/25 at 12:52 pm to
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by homeowners around Louisiana’s Lake Maurepas and elsewhere


So people who don’t want Louisiana to progress?
Posted by Double Oh
Louisiana
Member since Sep 2008
21163 posts
Posted on 4/21/25 at 12:57 pm to
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Mike Moncla, president of the Louisiana Oil and Gas Association, said Louisiana needs to push forward with its CCS projects if it wants to remain competitive with neighboring states like Texas, which is seeking primacy as well from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to permit the injection wells used for underground CO2 storage.

“They (Texas) will be happy to take on this industry, along with huge projects like Meta and Hyundai that have CCS pieces to their projects,” Moncla said, referring to a proposed multi-billion-dollar data center and an automotive plant both planned for Louisiana.



Mike then let other states go thru with their CCS projects. We don't need to keep up with them when CC is a scam anyway.
Posted by CharlesUFarley
Daphne, AL
Member since Jan 2022
709 posts
Posted on 4/21/25 at 12:57 pm to
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Good. Carbon capture is nothing more than a money laundering scam funded by taxpayer money to big oil.


It also completely wastes an obscene amount of electricity.

The same money could be spent on more combined cycle gas plants and reduce the CO2 footprint while producing more electricity.

Same goes for nukes.
Posted by Jimbeaux
Member since Sep 2003
20793 posts
Posted on 4/21/25 at 1:08 pm to
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Nobody can get rich off planting trees.


Lumber industry?
Posted by oldskule
Down South
Member since Mar 2016
21222 posts
Posted on 4/21/25 at 2:10 pm to
Recent studies show that the level of CO2 in the air could actually increase to benefit plants and trees.....

You really don't know who to believe anymore!
Posted by SouthEasternKaiju
SouthEast... you figure it out
Member since Aug 2021
35306 posts
Posted on 4/21/25 at 2:41 pm to
Utterly worthless until China starts to think about cutting back on fossil fuel consumption.

(Spoilers: China isn’t cutting back)
Posted by pochejp
Gonzales, Louisiana
Member since Jan 2007
7940 posts
Posted on 4/21/25 at 6:37 pm to
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Lumber industry?


We have 20+ years of lumber reserves in the Southeast States right now.
Posted by AtlantaLSUfan
Baton Rouge
Member since Mar 2009
24859 posts
Posted on 4/21/25 at 6:57 pm to
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Carbon Capture

Trees and plants. Anything else is a scam.
Posted by Lynxrufus2012
Central Kentucky
Member since Mar 2020
16217 posts
Posted on 4/21/25 at 7:10 pm to
Use it for tertiary recovery of oil. Send the rest to Mars along with AOC for terraforming. Send ABC, NBC and CBS too.
Posted by IamNotaRobot
OKC
Member since Nov 2021
924 posts
Posted on 4/21/25 at 7:11 pm to
Whether you like it or not, agree or disagree with the efficacy of such technologies for carbon capture, it’s going to be a thing. All the rage with the major E&Ps.
Posted by Jimbeaux
Member since Sep 2003
20793 posts
Posted on 4/22/25 at 7:49 am to
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We have 20+ years of lumber reserves in the Southeast States right now.


And yet, lumber prices remain very high. I know there’s way more to pricing than just timber reserves, but are we going to pretend that lumber is not a sellable commodity just because uncut reserves are high?
Posted by loogaroo
Welsh
Member since Dec 2005
36081 posts
Posted on 4/22/25 at 8:18 am to
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So people who don’t want Louisiana to progress?


Wow! You have no idea what you’re supporting. You guys crack me up how political you all are.

Posted by loogaroo
Welsh
Member since Dec 2005
36081 posts
Posted on 4/22/25 at 8:21 am to
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Mike then let other states go thru with their CCS projects. We don't need to keep up with them when CC is a scam anyway.


Mike wants those drilling contracts. They are going to drill a shite load of monitoring wells to watch the progress of the plume once they start injecting.
Posted by loogaroo
Welsh
Member since Dec 2005
36081 posts
Posted on 4/22/25 at 8:22 am to
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Utterly worthless until China starts to think about cutting back on fossil fuel consumption. (Spoilers: China isn’t cutting back)


Yup. It’s a scam to sell tax credits.
Posted by loogaroo
Welsh
Member since Dec 2005
36081 posts
Posted on 4/22/25 at 8:25 am to
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Whether you like it or not, agree or disagree with the efficacy of such technologies for carbon capture, it’s going to be a thing. All the rage with the major E&Ps.


Why wouldn’t they? Only thing that can stop this is if the tax credits disappeared and the federal funding stopped.
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