{"id":1954226,"date":"2023-06-22T14:07:02","date_gmt":"2023-06-22T18:07:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/where-is-kristi-noem-as-her-corporate-sponsors-take-over-constituents-land\/"},"modified":"2023-06-22T14:17:25","modified_gmt":"2023-06-22T18:17:25","slug":"where-is-kristi-noem-as-her-corporate-sponsors-take-over-constituents-land","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/where-is-kristi-noem-as-her-corporate-sponsors-take-over-constituents-land\/","title":{"rendered":"Where is Kristi Noem while corporate sponsors seize constituents&#8217; land?"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwhere-is-kristi-noem-as-her-corporate-sponsors-take-over-constituents-land%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1954226&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div class=\"article-content\">\n<p>More than 100 South Dakota landowners are faced with eminent domain lawsuits as a major carbon capture company constructs a more than 2,000-mile pipeline spanning the upper midwestern plains. <\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/summitcarbonsolutions.com\/project-footprint\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">pipeline<\/a> is a project by Summit Carbon Solutions, with the goal of extracting CO2 emissions from midwestern ethanol plants and injecting the liquified gasses deep underground in North Dakota. A process known as carbon sequestration, the pipeline is an effort from the ethanol industry to capitalize on tax incentives offered by reducing corporations\u2019 carbon footprint.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-2-long d-flex justify-content-center\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center; \" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-719682622\">\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1379703300879-0\" class=\"mb-30\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-af4b44d013f6ac05bd60df1edd5ffd9f fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-2\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-af4b44d013f6ac05bd60df1edd5ffd9f\"><\/div>\n<p>Litigation over the pipeline\u2019s encroachment on private property is now underway across nine counties in the state as rural residents object to the project on their land. Surveyors with Summit Carbon Solutions, however, are reportedly showing up on property while lawsuits remain pending. And the state\u2019s Republican governor, Kristi Noem, is nowhere to be found. <\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Eminent Domain Is Imminent<\/h2>\n<p>On Tuesday, Jared Bossly, a farmer in the state\u2019s northeastern Brown County who is opposed to the project crossing his property, reportedly found surveyors from the firm drilling a rig deep underground in the middle of his crop field. Bossly explained to Substack reporter Greg Price how the construction of the pipeline threatens the productivity of his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedakotascout.com\/p\/man-fighting-carbon-pipeline-finds\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">2,000-acre<\/a> farm.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe route would force them to bulldoze many of the trees he has planted, jeopardizing the safety of his cows by removing the windbreaks used to protect them,\u201d Price <a href=\"https:\/\/www.parabellum.news\/p\/when-green-energy-comes-for-your\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">wrote<\/a>. \u201cHe also said that the topsoil is only about a foot deep, which means moving it around will likely prevent crops from growing there again.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\"> <span class=\"sd9xG\"><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">NEW: This photo is from today at Jared Bossly&#8217;s farm in Brown County, South Dakota.<\/p>\n<p>Surveyors from Summit Carbon Solutions, currently filing an eminent domain lawsuits against him and 80 other landowners in the state for a carbon capture pipeline, showed up to his property with\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/6bkSQVKK5o\">pic.twitter.com\/6bkSQVKK5o<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Greg Price (@greg_price11) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/greg_price11\/status\/1671265971741360131?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 20, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/span> <\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/in-depth-farmers-band-together-against-co2-pipeline-project-in-south-dakota_5328078.html?utm_source=partner&#038;utm_campaign=ZeroHedge&#038;src_src=partner&#038;src_cmp=ZeroHedge\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">According<\/a> to The Epoch Times, surveyors with the carbon capture firm have moved forward with the intrusive inspections accompanied by armed security across South Dakota. <\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-08b8844c9af37f795f7b4ac6e7707d92 fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-6\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-08b8844c9af37f795f7b4ac6e7707d92\"><\/div>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\"> <span class=\"sbwFuv3dxvPEG9CWAIJFPXyLX2ljuNaD58jTrYp1HGVWcUgY2BSRgndwRO09othHr\"><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">This is the current scene on private property in South Dakota: an out-of-state, for-profit corporation with armed patrol intruding on property without the landowner\u2019s consent to lay a carbon sequestration pipeline that the landowner doesn\u2019t want. This is not freedom. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/OO7kzOMe8K\">pic.twitter.com\/OO7kzOMe8K<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Rep. Jon Hansen (@RepJonHansen) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RepJonHansen\/status\/1666113145125982209?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 6, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/span> <\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>The company is now exploiting the controversial process of eminent domain to strip landowners of their rights to protest the project on their own ground. South Dakota lacks protections for residents to keep companies such as Summit Carbon Solutions off their property until lawsuits are settled. In February, a committee in the Republican-controlled State Senate <a href=\"https:\/\/nebraskaexaminer.com\/2023\/02\/16\/committee-rejects-bill-to-stop-carbon-pipelines-from-using-eminent-domain\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">shot down<\/a> legislation passed in the House that would have prevented the firm from using eminent domain to capture land rights. <\/p>\n<p>The Fifth Amendment of the Constitution <a href=\"https:\/\/constitution.congress.gov\/constitution\/amendment-5\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">dictates<\/a>: \u201cnor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.\u201d South Dakota has no clear guidelines for utilities to be granted access by eminent domain. Pipeline projects are decided by the circuit courts under the <a href=\"https:\/\/puc.sd.gov\/commission\/Publication\/pipelinesiting.pdf\">existing state regulations<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>The pipeline proposed across five states has provoked a political uproar among farmers in South Dakota who are opposed to the project crossing their property. For months, farmers have organized and protested the corporate exploitation of eminent domain processes to orchestrate an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ukraine-working-to-resume-grain-exports-but-cites-russian-strikes-as-risk\/\" title=\"Ukraine Working to Resume Grain Exports But Cites Russian Strikes as Risk\">aggressive land grab<\/a>. Meanwhile, their governor, who <a href=\"https:\/\/ballotpedia.org\/South_Dakota_gubernatorial_and_lieutenant_gubernatorial_election,_2018\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">campaigned<\/a> on property rights in her first election to become the state\u2019s chief executive, has remained absent. <\/p>\n<p>Noem\u2019s office did not respond to The Federalist\u2019s request for comment. <\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-2d74464248d9be828c8d12556253611d fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-10\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-2d74464248d9be828c8d12556253611d\"><\/div>\n<p>\u201cWe haven\u2019t heard anything,\u201d said South Dakota State Rep. Karla Lems, who proposed the legislation that would have prevented the weaponization of eminent domain by corporate conglomerates. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn a normal world with everything Kristi Noem has said and done, you would think she would be standing hand in hand with us on this issue. You would think she would be saying, \u2018not on my watch,&#8217;\u201d Lems told The Federalist. \u201cYet she was on Capitol Hill a week-and<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/rand-paul-i-dont-think-fauci-is-ever-going-to-admit-nih-funded-gain-of-function-research\/\" title=\"Rand Paul: 'I Don't Think Fauci Is Ever Going to Admit' NIH Funded Gain of Function Research\">-a-half ago<\/a> saying all of the same things [about a federal land grab] all of us have been saying about this project.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Noem was in Washington D.C. last week to testify alongside GOP Wyoming Gov. Mark Gordon before the House Natural Resources Committee against the Bureau of Land Management\u2019s proposed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.federalregister.gov\/documents\/2023\/04\/03\/2023-06310\/conservation-and-landscape-health\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">public lands rule<\/a>. The new regulations establish a framework for conservation leases to preserve federal land and eliminate the bureau\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.blm.gov\/or\/districts\/burns\/newsroom\/files\/multipleuse.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">multiple use mandate. <\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn my world, everybody matters,\u201d Noem told lawmakers. \u201cDoesn\u2019t matter if you\u2019re big or small or important or not important. You should listen to them, especially if they\u2019re making a living off the land.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>[RELATED COVERAGE:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2023\/05\/19\/new-blm-rules-on-conservation-leases-will-fundamentally-transform-public-land-management\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">New BLM Rules On \u2018Conservation Leases\u2019 Will Fundamentally Transform Public Land Management<\/a>]<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>When it comes to farmers protesting the carbon sequestration pipeline, however, Noem has blown off every rally. <\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Family Ties<\/h2>\n<p>An examination of Noem\u2019s inner circle, which <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2021\/09\/who-is-kristi-noem-really\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">includes<\/a> close relationships with the state\u2019s chambers of commerce, might reveal why the governor is silent on the corporate land grab in South Dakota.<\/p>\n<p>Summit Carbon Solutions, an Iowa-based firm backed by South Korean <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kedglobal.com\/carbon-neutrality\/newsView\/ked202205100010\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">investors<\/a>, was a \u201cPlatinum Sponsor\u201d of Noem\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.keloland.com\/keloland-com-original\/summit-carbon-helps-sponsor-sd-inaugural-event\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">second<\/a> inauguration. <\/p>\n<p>Noem\u2019s son-in-law Kyle Peters is also a <a href=\"https:\/\/sosenterprise.sd.gov\/BusinessServices\/Lobbyist\/LobbyistSearch.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">registered lobbyist<\/a> for Gevo, a \u201cColorado-based renewable chemicals and advanced biofuels company.\u201d Last summer, Gevo <a href=\"https:\/\/dakotafreepress.com\/2022\/08\/08\/lake-preston-jet-fuel-plant-could-use-all-the-corn-produced-in-kingsbury-and-lake-counties\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">bought<\/a> 245 acres near South Dakota\u2019s Lake Preston to build a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/airline-ticket-prices-may-increase-aviation-executives-warn\/\" title=\"Airline Ticket Prices May Increase, Aviation Executives Warn\">jet fuel plant<\/a>. In February, the company <a href=\"https:\/\/summitcarbonsolutions.com\/gevo-maker-of-biofuel-for-jets-adding-south-dakota-plant-to-summit-carbon-pipeline\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">partnered <\/a>with Summit Carbon Solutions to handle the new plant\u2019s CO2 emissions. Peters published a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/posts\/kyle-peters-360a6217a_southdakota-gevo-development-activity-7024721690400092160-OZKV\/?originalSubdomain=na\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">post <\/a>on LinkedIn celebrating a legislative day at the state capitol five months ago, around the same time lawmakers in the upper chamber torpedoed legislation to protect farmers from eminent domain. <\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Farmers Face Government-Backed Environmental Despotism <\/h2>\n<p>South Dakota farmers are engaged in the same fight Noem righteously described in Washington.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis rule is just one of many that highlights an example of an overreaching unelected bureaucracy attempting to perpetuate radical environmental policies that ignore common sense,\u201d Noem <a href=\"https:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/gov-kristi-noem-offended-over-192847516.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">said<\/a> on Capitol Hill last week. \u201cThey ignore stewardship practices that have been practiced on our land for generations.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Private landowners who have been stewards of their soil for generations are being threatened by a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/where-is-kristi-noem-as-her-corporate-sponsors-take-over-constituents-land\/\" title=\"Where is Kristi Noem while corporate sponsors seize constituents' land?\">radical environmental movement demanding carbon sequestration<\/a> by way of a pipeline. Pipeline sequestration itself, however, also carries its own <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-supply-chain-crisis-reinforces-need-for-american-production\/\" title=\"Biden Supply Chain Crisis Reinforces Need for American Production\">environmental risks<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Three years ago in rural Mississippi, a pipeline <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2023\/05\/21\/1172679786\/carbon-capture-carbon-dioxide-pipeline\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">explosion <\/a>filled the air with a dense concentration of carbon dioxide that caused mass poisoning. The rupture forced 200 people to evacuate and sent at least 45 to the hospital. Cars were unable to operate due to the lack of oxygen in the air. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt looked like you were going through the zombie apocalypse,\u201d a local emergency director <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2023\/05\/21\/1172679786\/carbon-capture-carbon-dioxide-pipeline\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">told <\/a>National Public Radio. <\/p>\n<p>There are, however, risk-free alternatives to sequestering carbon that don\u2019t involve the construction of intrusive pipelines that carry dense poisonous gas across private land. In <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ucdavis.edu\/climate\/definitions\/carbon-sequestration\/biological\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">biological carbon sequestration<\/a>, carbon dioxide is absorbed into soils, oceans, grasslands, and forests. Natural carbon storage in soils can be <a href=\"https:\/\/www.american.edu\/sis\/centers\/carbon-removal\/fact-sheet-soil-carbon-sequestration.cfm#:~:text=Increasing%20soil%20carbon%20is%20accomplished,fallow%3B%20(3)%20managed%20grazing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">amplified <\/a>by proper agricultural practices and responsible land management. <\/p>\n<p>Whether carbon requires underground sequestration at all remains an open question. Atmospheric carbon has been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41467-019-12257-8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">shown<\/a> to be a factor in proliferating forest growth, carrying with it a \u201cgreening\u201d effect. Vegetation happens to grow faster in higher concentrations of carbon dioxide. As Michael Shellenberger noted in his book <em>Apocalypse Never<\/em>, \u201cFrom 1981 to 2016, four times more carbon was captured by plants due to carbon-boosted growth than from biomass covering a larger surface of Earth.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-708fa150d8ad5e0c537c9835027053df fdrlst__b89e9-after-post-content\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-708fa150d8ad5e0c537c9835027053df\"><\/div>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\">    \t\t\t\t\t   \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than 100 South Dakota landowners face eminent domain lawsuits as Summit Carbon Solutions builds a 2,000-mile pipeline across the upper midwestern plains. 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