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Oil Company Receives Taxpayer Funding to Pipe Carbon Waste Beneath Gulf of Mexico Environmental Integrity Project
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A Dallas based company called Cox Oil and partners have received federal taxpayer funding to build a 110-mile carbon dioxide pipeline and dumping ground beneath the floor of the Gulf of Mexico. Scott Eustice, Community Science Director of the nonprofit organization Healthy Gulf, and Justin Solet, a fisherman and member of the Native American United Houma Nation, discuss their objections to the "Louisiana Offshore CO2 Hub" near Grand Isle and other carbon capture projects planned for Louisiana. " “Basically, we’re rats in a laboratory,” Solet said. “And they are forcing this carbon waste injection down our throats, trying to see if it’s going to work. The history of indigenous people has always been that we have always been the white rats in the laboratories for the colonizers. Everything has been tested on us and on the Black population here." He criticized the federal government giving federal taxpayer dollars to oil companies to inject carbon into drilling grounds to force out more oil and gas, saying it's a "false solution" to climate change.
A Dallas based company called Cox Oil and partners have received federal taxpayer funding to build a 110-mile carbon dioxide pipeline and dumping ground beneath the floor of the Gulf of Mexico. Scott Eustice, Community Science Director of the nonprofit organization Healthy Gulf, and Justin Solet, a fisherman and member of the Native American United Houma Nation, discuss their objections to the "Louisiana Offshore CO2 Hub" near Grand Isle and other carbon capture projects planned for Louisiana. " “Basically, we’re rats in a laboratory,” Solet said. “And they are forcing this carbon waste injection down our throats, trying to see if it’s going to work. The history of indigenous people has always been that we have always been the white rats in the laboratories for the colonizers. Everything has been tested on us and on the Black population here." He criticized the federal government giving federal taxpayer dollars to oil companies to inject carbon into drilling grounds to force out more oil and gas, saying it's a "false solution" to climate change.
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