New paper from Heartland Institute examines how carbon seize and storage initiatives threaten property rights – do you agree?

From the Heartland Institute.

H. Sterling Burnett, Ph.D.

Capturing and storing carbon dioxide also represents a huge waste of resources and causes other harm

ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, IL (January 22, 2025) – Carbon capture and storage (CCS) projects have become an increasingly popular way climate activists are pursuing their ultimate goal of achieving “net zero” carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions worldwide. A new paper from the Heartland Institute urges policymakers to push back against CCS projects, which often involve using eminent domain to seize private property from landowners.

The paper, entitled “Carbon Capture & Property Rights: There Is No Justification for Using Carbon Capture and Storage Projects to Abrogate Property Rights,” begins with a brief background of the chain of events and overarching agenda that gave rise to CCS and an explanation of the CCS process. It then addresses the significant public health and environmental problems that can be a direct result of CCS projects, as well as the massive public-private partnerships and financing mechanisms that incentivize the proliferation of CCS.

The article concludes by clarifying how CCS actually poses an imminent threat to Americans' basic private property rights and providing concrete recommendations for state and federal policymakers to protect these rights and push back against the green agenda .

Some of these recommendations from authors Jack McPherrin, H. Sterling Burnett, Ph.D. and Daylea DuVall Camp include that state policymakers eliminate or mitigate the ability for CCS companies to use eminent domain through the treatment of common carrier designations, and that state policymakers both stop regulating CO2 as a harmful pollutant and cut funding for it CCS projects.

Read the full article Here.

The following statements from climate and energy experts at the Heartland Institute can be used for attribution.

“Efforts to impose carbon capture and storage (CCS) initiatives on the energy sector represent a government-sponsored malpractice. CCS is scientifically unjustified because we are not facing a climate crisis, and economically damaging because energy costs are rising. And in the worst case scenario of all schemes, CCS leads to the forced sale of people's property. No one should be forced to allow a CCS pipeline to be built on their land as it serves no public purpose; Rather, it simply brings unwarranted profits to the politically connected promoters of green energy. Policymakers and public utility commissions should take action to explicitly prevent CCS companies from using eminent domain to violate people’s constitutionally guaranteed property rights.”

H. Sterling Burnett, Ph.D.

Director, Arthur B. Robinson Center for Climate and Environmental Policy
The Heartland Institute

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