Web 57DHYAFZZFLXZ July 5 2026 Air Polluters hiding behind failed Carbon Capture
Air Polluters are hiding behind failed Carbon Capture
California’s First Carbon Capture Project will pollute nature
deep underground. The California Resources Corporation
The largest oil company in California has injection operations
Which will inject Carbon Dioxide deep under its own oil fields.
Environmentalists oppose these injections and will not yield.
The argument these air polluters make is that sequestration
Underground keeps carbon dioxide from warming the nation
And the planet while in the atmosphere. It is named Terravault
Locking up Carbon Dioxide for millions of years without fault
Instead of just ending fossil fuel mining and fossil fuel hearths.
At the expense of human life. At the expense of life on earth.
The Terravault is up and running officially representing
A Test Case not only for California but representing
Also nearly a dozen similar projects in the works in
Other countries and other United States’ Regions.
Kern County, which is the project location
is the historic heart of California fossil fuel production.
This week, the state finalized regulations
that could support many more operations.
The carbon CRC is sequestering at its storage site
comes from its own natural gas-processing plant.
The project is still caught up in litigation because after its approval,
environmental groups sued, arguing that environmental review fails.
Most of CRC’s properties are rooted in a state which is planning CO2 elimination
a future without CO2 emissions. The company still plans CO2 injection.
In response to an Artificial Intelligence Inquiry,
in Two Thousand Twenty Three
Total California CO2 Emissions
were Thirty Eight Percent from Transportation
Twenty Two Percent from Industry
Twelve Percent from Electricity
In State. Ten Percent from Residential.
Eight Percent from Agriculture
Seven Percent from Commercial
And Four Percent from Electricity Imports!
Three Hundred Sixty point Four MMT CO2e
from California in total in Two Thousand Twenty Three
Metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent or MTCO2e
is the unit of measurement in this tool. The
unit “CO2e” represents an amount of a GHG
Green House Gas whose atmospheric impact
has been standardized to that of one unit mass
of carbon dioxide (CO2), based on the global warming
potential (GWP) of the gas. Tool formulas convert
standard metrics for electricity, green energy, fuel use,
chemical use, management and water use
into MTCO2e. For the aggregate tab, the tool uses
million MTCO2e or MMTCO2e.
An Earthjustice attorney representing environmental groups involved
in a lawsuit against CRC and Kern county, would like to see the project halted
until the county and the company resolve the problems she has alleged
run through the entire environmental assessment of the project and pollution.
The lawsuit alleges that Kern County did not properly evaluate potential pollution
and other environmental impacts from speculative industrial projects
that may be built to take advantage of the TerraVault storage space.
The injection underway in Kern County is just the initial phase of CRC’s first project,
called CarbonTerraVault One. It is capable of taking roughly One point Five million metric
tons of CO2 per year and storing Thirty Eight million tons overall. But CRC
has submitted storage applications for California that would hold a total of Three
Hundred Fifty Two million tons of carbon still only a fraction of what needs to be stored
every year to confront climate change, according to the United Nations and
less than what the state of California emits in just one year. The company has signed
tentative agreements with emitters of the greenhouse gas, which included
bioenergy companies and a hydrogen producer, that add up to just a fraction
of that total storage amount. Environmental Advocates point out that that fraction
will be injection in a century-old oil field riddled with holes that could allow carbon
to worm its way free. Elk Hills is punched with thousands of wells still in production
for oil and gas. As that lawsuit wends its way through the courts, California’s carbon
storage market could continue growing. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency,
which regulates carbon dioxide storage wells in California, is currently
reviewing Eleven more proposed projects with nearly Fifty California carbon injection
wells. The agency expects to finalize approval for those projects in Two Thousand
Twenty Six and Two Thousand Twenty Seven. Currently Seven of them would host emissions
by CRC or a subsidiary. There seems to be no end to planned but caught CO2 emissions.
What small percentage of CO2 emissions will be caught to Carbon Capture?
Why not just stop CO2 emissions altogether?
Preventative steps are better for nature.