Standing Firm for Property Rights
South Dakota is proving herself a fortress against globalist schemes to rob farmers of their property by claiming eminent domain for carbon-capture pipelines. Among neighbors who have capitulated to the land-grabbing ploys, her officials are defending South Dakotans in a way that the rest of us should both envy and emulate.
The background of the story is this: Pipeline companies are eagerly awaiting the chance at billions in government subsidies to sequester carbon dioxide (CO2) underground — a process known as carbon capture and storage (CCS). Potential payouts are so large that the companies are suing landowners who don’t sign voluntary easements, and, in most cases, elected leaders are selling out their constituents to Washington-backed corporate interests.
Never mind that supercritical (liquefied) CO2 pumped through pipelines under extremely high pressure is ridiculously dangerous and toxic to animal and plant life; studies detailed at CO2PipelineZone.com have evinced as much as a five-mile “kill zone” around rupture sites. Never mind that pipeline companies, backed by government, threaten to use eminent domain to confiscate private property for their enterprises, made lucrative at the expense of American taxpayers. Never mind that much of the property they’re commandeering is some of the most valuable farmland in our country, and taking that land out of agricultural production threatens our food security. Never mind that far from being a “pollutant,” as eco-crazed bureaucrats have labeled it, CO2 is a chemical compound critical to life on earth. It is plant food; it feeds our food.
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