Land Grab for "Climate"? Land Confiscated from Midwestern Farmers
Carbon pipeline companies are telling the farmers to go away.
This story is about an event that is extremely important and historically deep. According to Ice Age Farmer, a large amount of land is currently being confiscated from American farmers in the Midwest, using eminent domain. The farmers are given an option to accept a modest compensation and go away “voluntarily”—but if not, they are threatened with the prospect of losing their land anyway under eminent domain.
This is done to give way to a massive carbon sequestration pipeline (actually, two of them) and processing facilities going through the heart of the Corn Belt. (You guessed it, this is done in the name of “saving the planet.”)
Notably, the project allegedly requires removing top soil (!!!) in an area spanning thousands of miles—an agriculturally important area—which is, of course, a great way to save the planet!
The upcoming “alternative energy” bubble was written up in a seminal 2008 Harper’s Magazine article and reported on extensively by Cory Morningstar and…
