Fellow Nebraskans: are you aware of the carbon dioxide pipeline targeting our communities? An out-of-state corporation, Summit Carbon Solutions, is proposing to route a highly pressurized pipeline transporting CO2, a known asphyxiant, through Nebraska. Why?
Because the federal government is offering billions of our tax dollars to them for injecting the toxic, CO2 waste underground.
Not only is this a bad deal for taxpayers, it’s a bad deal for the landowners and communities who have to absorb the risks for the company’s private reward.
From the potential of a pipeline rupture like the one in Satartia, MS that sent nearly 50 people to the hospital and required the evacuation of hundreds more, to declining yields and property values, and the threat of eminent domain, this proposed pipeline seems to offer everyday Nebraskans nothing but grief. This land feeds and fuels America, let’s not destroy it for the profit of Summit and its billionaire investors.
Shelli Meyer
Hastings