A “green energy” project in rural North Dakota is yet another such initiative that misses the mark.
Despite the Energy Department’s admission that the Tundra Project would emit three times more carbon dioxide than it captures, a department grant worth up to $350 million is going to this proposed carbon capture and storage endeavor. The venture is backed by two American companies, Minnkota and Kiewit, as well as Canada’s TC Energy and Japan’s Mitsubishi Heavy Industries.
But Project Tundra, planned for North Dakota’s Oliver County, presents a climate problem of its own. The project could emit more greenhouse gases than it stores because of the energy it takes to transport the carbon dioxide.
“There is an expected 3.23 kg of CO2 emitted per kg of CO2 stored,” the Energy Department’s environmental assessment of the project states.
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