You Can't Remediate Dead Fish

 “You can’t remediate dead fish,” said an elected official from one of the parishes that shares the lakefront. “There is no amount of money that would make us understand this and accept it. We are fine the way we are.”

SAVE LAKE MAUREPAS   SAVE OUR MANCHAC 

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Two recent articles in DeSmog note growing concerns for Lake Maurepas' fragile ecosystem and the failed or underperformed carbon capture technologies, which have been described as inefficient, underperforming, and enormously expensive.

ByJulie Dermansky
The Battle to Stop Air Products’ Carbon Capture Project at Lake Maurepas Grows
Pro-industry NIMBYs leading the fight question the company’s claims of being “clean.”

Hydrogen, which can be made from natural gas, is only “blue” if carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) is used to offset some of the carbon emitted from the manufacturing. Air Products, the Fortune 500 company behind this proposed project, is planning to store the carbon it captures in injection wells under Lake Maurepas, a prized ecosystem that offers plentiful seafood and vital storm surge protection for nearby residents.

ByDana Drugmand Big Oil’s Been Secretly Validating Critics’ Concerns about Carbon Capture  A DeSmog analysis of subpoenaed internal oil industry communications shows CCS as the strategic linchpin for more oil and gas development.

There is mounting evidence, however, that CCS is ineffective. Numerous projects have failed or underperformed. Some studies indicate the technology does little to reduce emissions, and may even increase carbon and other air pollution. Climate and environmental justice organizations, some climate and energy experts, and some lawmakers, are speaking out against the false promise of CCS. And in the wake of the IRA’s passage, the business partners who started the first private CCS company in the United States wrote an op-ed in The New York Times condemning the technology and the billions of federal dollars propping it up. They argue that CCS is inefficient, underperforming, and enormously expensive, while facilitating further fossil fuel development — especially when the captured carbon is used to extract more oil and gas.  

Save Lake Maurepas

 

We ask you to sign this petition by the Lake Maurepas Preservation Society to protect the lake from industrial intrusion by carbon capture! The petition asks Governor Jon Bel Edwards and the Louisiana Department of Natural Resources to halt the current activity in Lake Maurepas and surrounding wetlands, place permanent moratorium on new CO2 wells and CO2 pipelines, and require an  Environmental Impact Study (EIS) for any industrial activity in Lake Maurepas and the surrounding wetlands. We believe that Lake Maurepas deserves the same protections as Lake Pontchartrain to which it is directly connected.

Save Lake Maurepas

 Tommy Tucker WWL 870 AM Radio

What is the Blue Hydrogen Project? October 13 2022 podcast

 https://www.audacy.com/wwl/podcasts/wwl-first-news-with-tommy-tucker-20319

Cynthia Ebinger joins Tommy to talk about the the Blue Hydrogen Project  and whether its carbon injection plans could threaten Lake Maurepas' ecosystem.

Tune in to WWL 870 AM Radio again on Monday October 17tth for another discussion on this important topic and follow Save Lake Maurepas and Save Our Manchac for more information

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Paraphrasing from the October 13 2022 discussion

Any big industrial activity that involves the Earth's ecosystem needs a watchdog and independent monitoring.

Carbon recapture is a new technology that injects fluid CO2 into the Earth's surface, under Lake Maurepas in this proposed project.

Louisiana as a State already has an extensive network of pipelines and the plan is to use the existing infrastructure.

The carbon will be placed under high pressure to become liquid carbon which is injected into the rock surface under Lake Maurepas where there will be mineral reaction to stabilize the liquid as the carbon becomes part of the rock formations. Ideally, this is to be done in areas with no faults in the Earth's surface, as surface faults would allow the carbon to resurface. When CO2 and methane resurfaces it interacts with the ground water. "You don't want to have happen." 

The State of Illinois has established best practices for this procedure and according to Dr Ebinger it is the expectation that the Louisiana Dept of Natural Resources will require those best practices, including additional monitoring, which Dr Ebinger had stated should be independent monitoring.

Its a rapidly changing technology. Its also considered a transitional technology to offset emissions from a new hydrogen plant proposal to meet zero emissions goals. It does not actually reduce the industry's emissions. It is unclear what the storage capacity of Lake Maurepas is for this type of carbon, as the new hydrogen plant is considered to be operational perpetually