UPDATE 1/14/23: So eloquently written by photojournalist, Julie Dermansky,
“https://www.desmog.com/2022/12/27/year-photos-gaslighting-fossil-fuel-industry-ccs-lng-louisiana/
“For instance, Air Products claims that its proposed $4.5 billion “clean energy complex” that will produce ammonia and blue hydrogen in Ascension Parish just south of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, will have technology meant to “capture and sequester 95 percent” of the facility’s emissions. But if built, even with the best available carbon capture mechanisms in place, the project will still contribute to the climate crisis by locking in demand for natural gas that can only be met by fracking more wells.
The announcement of the proposed project in October 2021 initially faced no backlash from communities on the banks of Lake Maurepas, home to a freshwater estuary that supports the local fishing industry. But that changed when those communities learned that Air Products’ proposed CCS project connected to the complex would be in their backyard — and when word spread this year that the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries already had granted the company a lease to store the carbon sequestered from the facility under the lake in injection wells it proposes to build, if permitted to do so.
Now, community members in parishes along the lake — which are traditionally oil and gas industry friendly — are taking a harder look at assumptions they readily accepted related to CCS, and do not like what they are learning.”
End Update
UPDATE: Dec 8, 2022 Air Products doing it’s GREEN work in Texas….as opposed to it’s dangerous Blue work in Louisiana in having to pipe out liquified carbon dioxide byproducts to be sequestered.
Creating hydrogen from water using renewable energy inputs to power the electrolysis process is GREEN hydrogen.
Creating hydrogen using for example from Methane inputs for the steam process is BLUE hydrogen, but is NOT clean in creating new demand for methane..aka fracking AND the carbon output needs to be sequestered under the ground. More here…https://cals.cornell.edu/news/2021/08/touted-clean-blue-hydrogen-may-be-worse-gas-or-coal
https://www.energy.gov/eere/fuelcells/hydrogen-shot: “Currently, hydrogen from renewable energy costs about $5 per kilogram. Achieving the Hydrogen Shot’s 80% cost reduction goal can unlock new markets for hydrogen, including steel manufacturing, clean ammonia, energy storage, and heavy-duty trucks”.
Regardless of hydrogen COLOR manufactured, transporting hydrogen in pipelines have NOT been proven SAFE.
https://www.barrons.com/news/barcelona-marseille-pipeline-an-ambitious-but-risky-project-01670568009: “One of the main problems is that hydrogen is made up of small molecules which can escape through the joints and cause corrosion, said Jose Ignacio Linares, a professor at Madrid’s Pontificia Comillas University and an engineer by training.
But such problems could be overcome by “installing a membrane inside (the pipeline), a kind of plastic that prevents the hydrogen from escaping,” he said”.
Per EESI.org: “The United States has over 1,600 miles of hydrogen pipelines, three storage caverns, including the world’s largest geological cavern in Texas, and a growing infrastructure for hydrogen”. This pales in comparison to the 180,000-mile natural gas transmission pipeline infrastructure.
Read what happened in Mississippi…..
Liquified CO2 pipeline burst in Mississippi in 2020 following a hard rain and a mud slide. Denbury reported a couple hours later 222 barrels released, but 48 hours later changed it to 21,873 barrels. https://news.yahoo.com/carbon-dioxide-pipeline-burst-mississippi-125744533.html?fr=sycsrp_catchall
The unprecedented Mississippi CO2 leak could be MADE INTO A MOVIE it is so shocking how not only the people, but the vehicles were choking for oxygen. People were trying to evacuate and some were foaming at the mouth being like zombies. This link also has the real life 911 audios. More concerning is how the effort to build or use existing pipelines to transport CO2 has not had the rigorous research and testing. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/gassing-satartia-mississippi-co2-pipeline_n_60ddea9fe4b0ddef8b0ddc8f
But BOTH Blue & Green flavored hydrogen production does have WATER costs…and if you are inclined to dine in investing water stocks…maybe now is the time to invest…
https://www.ghd.com/en/perspectives/water-for-hydrogen.aspx
END Dec 9, 2022 update
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UPDATE latest AN17 coverage to get Army Corps of Engineer to to not issue ANY permits, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6cT6tm9twmI
Here is the Denbury webpage where they support AirProducts, https://www.denbury.com/operations/operations-overview/gulf-coast-region/Pipelines/default.aspx
UPDATE blue hydrogen will be all the rage if they can help it. They want to even repurpose existing pipelines to carry it or the carbon dioxide byproduct (if you’re using methane to make blue hydrogen)! Thanks Biden for the carbon sequestration incentive$$$ which is only increasing demand for fracking methane. I should know …we just got word that they’re going to frack six more Wells by AT&T stadium in Arlington after a decade of no new well development.
UPDATE go to the 18 minute 30 second mark for the latest AN17 9/23/22 mineral review board meeting/interview, https://youtu.be/HGgrXeb2bPg
UPDATE here is the Lake Maurepas AirProducts timeline of activities link for their blue hydrogen plant (which is NOT really green) https://www.airproducts.com/campaigns/la-blue-hydrogen-project/louisiana-project-updates#contactus
Why such interest in Carbon Capture and Sequestration?…https://www.jonesday.com/en/insights/2022/08/inflation-reduction-act-expands-carbon-capture-and-sequestration-tax-credit
Here is the link as to why Blue Hydrogen is NOT Green…https://scitechdaily.com/blue-hydrogen-is-supposed-to-be-clean-energy-but-may-actually-be-worse-than-gas-and-coal/
UPDATE at the bottom of this post are responses from emails……
Mechanochemistry advances stores & transports CO2 SAFELY in powders… why build more or repurpose pipelines?
Dear Louisiana elected representatives, please do not give permission to use/build old school pipelines to transport dangerous CO2 under Lake Maurepas and Lake Pontchartrain.
Here is recent AN17 news coverage with Kinion Bankston of Southern Boyz Outdoors youtube video on the details….https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E03Cb5EhSlc
Here is the 8/24/22 local news story https://www.wbrz.com/news/industrial-gas-company-looking-to-store-carbon-dioxide-under-lake-maurepas
Here are the two (of three) announced projects…..
https://gov.louisiana.gov/index.cfm/newsroom/detail/3773
CF Industries Announces $198.5 Million Carbon Capture Project At Donaldsonville Complex
August 05, 2022
DONALDSONVILLE, La. – CF Industries plans to invest $198.5 million to construct a CO2 compression and dehydration unit at its Ascension Parish plant in an effort to reduce carbon emissions at what it says is the largest ammonia production facility in the world.
The Air Products time line/project updates for Lake Maurepas test wells for injections wells for CCS (carbon capture and storage) is on this link…https://www.airproducts.com/campaigns/la-blue-hydrogen-project/louisiana-project-updates#contactus
Instead of pipelines, please consider, “The technique they (University of Waterloo) developed uses heat and salt to extract a black carbon powder from plant matter. Carbon spheres that make up the powder have many, many pores and the vast majority of them are less than one-millionth of a metre in diameter.
“The porosity of this material is extremely high,” said Chen, who holds a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in advanced materials for clean energy. “And because of their size, these pores can capture CO2 very efficiently. The performance is almost doubled.”
Once saturated with carbon dioxide at large point sources such as fossil fuel power plants, the powder would be transported to storage sites and buried in underground geological formations to prevent CO2 release into the atmosphere.”
This article explains other considerations as to why this is moving forward in a reckless fashion, https://insideclimatenews.org/news/09032022/carbon-capture-and-storage-fossil-fuels-climate-change/
We should be getting off of fossil fuels period…the field of Mechanochemistry is entering an era of storing and transporting hydrogen safely in POWDERS in three ways…
This 11 minute video breaks it down https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CmaV0LBlCUo&feature=youtu.be
1) University of California, Santa Cruz under direction of Scott Oliver in the organic chemistry department: In a ratio of 1 to 3 of aluminum to (reusable) gallium, 1 gram of the mixture can yield 130 ml of hydrogen that the POWDERS can be stored in cyclohexane gas for at least 3 months!
2) In Hong Kong, EPRO Advance Technology (EAT) uses silicone to easily ship and store Green Energy POWDERS!
3) In Australia, Deakin University institute uses steel ball grinders (at 32 cents for 20 hours energy use) for frontier materials that uses boron nitride and two gases to make it’s POWDERS. They add heat to get the energy on demand.
Please give our new technologies a chance and do not rush projects using old school pipelines.
POWDERS not pipelines please!
Here is the link to pictures of articles cited and Louisiana representative contacts….
Response from Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality….
Ms Feil,
We spoke this morning regarding this matter. I have been asking around and it appears that the LDEQ Water Permits Division has not received any permit requests for this proposed project. We also don’t have any information on an EPA Environmental Impact Report. I was told that the project may not need a water discharge permit or an air permit, but would likely need a 404 permit from the US Army Corps of Engineers. Once that process gets started, LDEQ would be requested to issue a water quality certification to the Corps permit. Our staff who issues the certifications have not received anything at this time. You may want to contact the Corps of Engineers for more information. You can request information from them via a freedom of information act request. Check the Corps website on how to do this… https://www.usace.army.mil/FOIA.aspx
HERE are some combined email responses from WILMA SUBRA….
https://cen.acs.org/people/awards/Wilma-Subra-unstoppable-pioneer-environmental/98/i3
<subracom@aol.com>
To:kimfeil@sbcglobal.net
Wed, Sep 21 at 3:13 PM
Alert!!!
Air Products applied for a minor air permit for the facility in Ascension Parish.
They requested expedited application from LA DEQ.
They are not required to get a Title V Air Permit.
They applied for a Minor Source Air Permit.
It was judged to be administrative complete on April 4, 2022.
There is no requirement for a public hearing.
If you do not request a public hearing LA DEQ will issued the air permit with no input from the community.
EPA delegated authority to DEQ. DEQ is the permitting authority. (meaning no EPA public hearing)
On the DEQ website the AI number of the applications is listed under 233211.
In addition to the alert for the Air Products facility,
the proposed air emissions will be 66.94 tons per year for VOC.
94.88 tons per year for Carbon Monoxide
95.25 tons per year for Nitrogen Oxide
44.11 tons per year for PM10
33.02 tons per year for PM2.5
1.77 tons per year for Sulfur Dioxides
There was a Corps of Engineer hearing a month or so ago on the seismic portion of the activity under all but a sliver of Lake Maurepas.
There a number of agencies with authority.
DEQ on air, wastewater and waste.
Corps of Engineers on wetlands and coring.
Office of conservation on pipelines and the wells to inject.
Any one thing could stop it
Wilma
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Request LDEQ Public Hearing on AI#233211
Note to Feil blogger to call Dr Brad Guarisco (504 862 2274) with the Army Corps of Engineers to see if the 404 permit has been initiated. Under the Clean Water Act Section 404….”The basic premise of the program is that no discharge of dredged or fill material may be permitted if: (1) a practicable alternative exists that is less damaging to the aquatic environment or (2) the nation’s waters would be significantly degraded. In other words, when you apply for a permit, you must first show that steps have been taken to avoid impacts to wetlands, streams and other aquatic resources; that potential impacts have been minimized; and that compensation will be provided for all remaining unavoidable impacts.”
NOTE 404 permit COULD BE DENIED based if the practicable? alternative would be to NOT PIPE CO2 when powder technology now exists for safer transport/storage.
So lets see if Air Products will respond to this email….
—– Forwarded Message —–
From: kim feil <kimfeil@sbcglobal.net>
To: lahydrog@airproducts.com <lahydrog@airproducts.com>
Sent: Wednesday, September 21, 2022 at 09:14:40 PM CDT
Subject: POWDER Transport of CO2 to CCS injection (test) wells on Lake Maurepas
Mechanochemistry technologies have a paradigm shift making pipelines eventually obsolete, so why invest in dangerous pipelines?
The Inflation Reduction Act funding provides for such expenditures to switch to newer technologies, will you lead?
Hydrogen can be converted to POWDERS for safe transport and storage too since you are in the hydrogen business.
Will you lead?
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