It’s led by some of the state’s biggest polluters.
The CF Industries fertilizer complex in Donaldsonville, Louisiana, on June 30th, 2022.A massive effort to capture the pollution causing climate change is marching forward in Louisiana, and it’sThis week, Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwardsan “unprecedented” collaboration between two oil and gas giants, ExxonMobil and EnLink Midstream, and leading ammonia producer CF Industries.
to capture 2 million tons of carbon dioxide emissions annually, transport the gas across the state, and bury it underground.to capture 2 million tons of carbon dioxide emissions annually, transport them across the state, and bury them underground Edwards is billing it as a major move toward reaching the state’s goal of net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. As it loses ground to rising sea levels and braces each year for increasingly strong hurricanes, Louisiana is already grappling with the consequences of climate change. But critics of the new carbon capture project say it’s the wrong way to go about preventing more climate-fueled disasters.
“Projects like this serve as a vehicle for greenwash at a massive scale,” says Carroll Muffett, president and CEO of the nonprofit Center for International Environmental Law. “It allows companies who continue to be serious polluters, continue to be contributing significantly to the climate crisis, to present themselves to the public and to regulators as part of the solution.”
CF Industries has a $198.5 million plan to install equipment at its giant ammonia facility in Donaldsonville, Louisiana, that should be able to capture up to 2 million metric tons of its CO2 emissions a year. That’s equivalent to “replacing approximately 700,000 gasoline-powered cars with electric vehicles,” according to CF Industries’But that captured CO2 is a fraction of the roughly 10 million metric tons of CO2 emissions the Donaldsonville facility produced in 2019.
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