Carbon Capture is the Boondoggle of Climate Change Projects
A CO2 pipeline in Mississippi ruptured last year, sickening dozens of people. What does it forecast for the massive proposed buildout of pipelines across the U.S.? By Dan Zegart, Huffington Post The US has been spending billions for unproven carbon capture technology and intends to spend more Boondoggle- A wasteful or extravagant project with no practical value By Michael Coppola and Nancy Lazar The fossil fuel industry has convinced the Biden administration that carbon capture is a critical technology needed to prevent further climate damage. They view carbon capture as a way to counter the CO2 that fossil fuel puts into the air when used as a fuel. Carbon capture is a process that sequesters carbon dioxide from the factories or power plants that produce it and stores it somewhere instead of letting it go into the atmosphere. They would like to argue that as long as they remove as much CO2 as they put in from burning fossil fuels the combined process is greenhouse gas neutral. There