As an Iowa Farmland owner affected by the Hazardous
Carbon pipeline projects, I urge CARB to repeal the Carbon Capture
and Sequestration Protocol under the Low Carbon Fuel Standard that
is incentivizing carbon capture projects attached to ethanol plants
in the Midwest. This is relatively new and untested technology and
puts all living beings and land along the pipeline paths in danger
of a hazardous rupture. We should be moving away from polluting
fossil fuels and mono crop corn production. Ethanol was meant as a
bridge technology to help move us towards more ecological and
sustainable energy sources away from oil. We need to address the
run away pollution by oil based chemical fertilizers and
pesticides. Pipelines carving up the fertile midwestern farmlands
is the last thing we need!
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