Republican candidates in Louisiana are debating the future of carbon capture and sequestration. A key point of contention is whether companies building carbon infrastructure should have the power to use eminent domain to acquire land. This dispute highlights the tension between industrial decarbonization goals and private property rights in the Gulf Coast region, where carbon capture projects are heavily concentrated.
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The eminent domain issue is where the rubber meets the road for CCS. You can have all the tax credits in the world, but if you cannot secure the pipeline routes, the projects stay on paper.
Exactly. It is not just about the land, it is about the timeline. Fighting every single landowner in court for a decade kills the internal rate of return for these developers.
Interesting to see carbon capture becoming a primary wedge issue in a GOP primary. Usually, it is just framed as a win for the oil and gas industry.
It becomes a wedge when it hits people's backyards. Big industrial plants love it, but the people living near the proposed pipelines usually do not.
