A meeting was held in Oskaloosa Friday night (4/22) about a proposed pipeline that would carry liquefied carbon dioxide across the state.  Carolyn Raffensperger, executive director of the Science and Environmental Health Network, spoke about why she believes the pipeline is a bad idea.

“First, it’s not a climate solution.  It actually requires more energy to capture the CO2 than just making ethanol.  The other is that it’s really a bad use of government resources to take private land and give it to another private company.”

Raffensperger also said pumping liquefied carbon dioxide into the ground, which is what the pipeline proponents want to do, would make the land acidic.  She and other speakers encouraged landowners not to give in to pressure to sell their land because of threats that eminent domain would be used to take land for the pipeline.  And this CO2 pipeline is not a sure thing at this point.