Carbon Capture and Storage technology is not an effective way to address the climate emergency.
Supporters of CCS have sent a letter to Senator Wyden, chair of the Senate Finance Committee, asking him to eliminate minimum capture requirements for CCS, claiming they will not be able to do CCS with the requirement that they capture 75% of emissions. Instead of abandoning this technology they are now admitting is ineffective, they are pushing to eliminate minimum capture requirements in the Build Back Better Act.
We hope you will contact Senator Wyden at (202-224-5244) and as well as leader Senator Schumer (202-224-6542) and tell them oppose subsidies for Carbon Capture and Storage technologies, and that you don’t appreciate fossil fuel energy industry attempts to remove guardrails on CCS that are currently included in the Build Back Better Act.
Pleas also contact our Minnesota Senators, Tina Smith and Amy Klobuchar and express the same thoughts.
- Proponents falsely claim that Carbon Capture and Storage projects can consistently capture 90% or more of emissions, yet the Build Back Better Act would allow companies to claim credits at rates as low as 75% and to not require a full lifecycle analysis of carbon capture technology. This is an admission that this technology does not work.
- We need to hold the fossil fuel industry accountable, not divert more subsidies for an industry that is destroying the planet for a technology that does not work.
- Carbon Capture equipment at power plants increases energy demand by nearly 20%, curtailing capacity and providing no new generation, while driving up cost and pollution for the public.
- Clean renewable energy investments do more to reduce greenhouse gases than carbon capture and storage (CCS) at power plants.
- The Build Back Better Act increases oil drilling subsidies by up to 271%, depending on the method used to capture CO2.
- Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR) undermines any supposed benefit of capturing CO2 resulting in a net increase in greenhouse gas emissions.
- When you consider full lifecycle analysis, including energy to run the equipment, the capture rates can be as low as 39%.
- CCS will increase energy costs and cause harm in disadvantaged communities. In fact, the White House Environmental Justice Advisory Council recognizes the CCS does not benefit environmental justice communities and is an adverse introduction into environmental justice communities.