Yesterday (7.25.22), Navigator Heartland Greenway LLC filed a petition with the Illinois Commerce Commission (ICC) to construct a dangerous CO2 pipeline through 13 Illinois counties despite overwhelming opposition from landowners, local governments, and agricultural and environmental advocates across Illinois.
Navigator’s CO2 pipeline and sequestration project is rather like trying to put the methane back in the beans after eating a bowl of chili.
I would ask the McDonough County Board to get more involved and talk to the landowners about Navigator’s CO2 pipeline. We don’t want it!
It’s time to hear the truth: The Heartland Greenway project can’t “ensure” (as they repeatedly claim) that the CO2 will stay under a rock cap 6000 feet underground.
Navigator needs a permit to cross local roads. Given PHMSA’s announcement of the need for improved safety, can local governments say no?
If cultural resources exist and they are significant, they could become registered sites and be protected from pipeline development.
Landowners: You don’t have to allow surveyors on your property.. But you shouldn’t ignore them, either.
PHMSA’s announcement for rule-making to improve safety measures and oversight for CO2 pipelines confirms what we have been saying: these pipelines are dangerous and under-regulated.
CO2 pipelines cause concerns. A rupture actually happened in 2020 near Satartia, Mississippi, sending nearly 50 people to the hospital and requiring the evacuation of 300.
On May 26, 2022, PHMSA announced it will strengthen its oversight of CO2 pipelines to protect communities from dangerous pipeline failures.