The Biden Administration announces the federal government will spend one-point-two billion dollars to build underground carbon capture hubs in Texas and Louisiana. The carbon capture in facility in Louisiana will be in Calcasieu Parish. Governor John Bel Edwards is thrilled the White House selected Louisiana….
“Louisiana represents both an amazing opportunity to address carbon management to combat climate change but also that Louisiana is a worthwhile target for investment.”
The White House says the project is estimated to create 23-hundred jobs, with a goal to hire workers formerly employed by the oil and gas industry for ten percent of the overall workforce.
Former New Orleans Mayor Mayor and Lt. Governor Mitch Landrieu, who is now a Senior Advisor to the President, says the funding will come from the 2021 Infrastructure Act…
“That is what the President’s investing in the American agenda is all about. Delivering clean air that communities need to stay safe, creating good high paying jobs, and growing the economy from the middle out to the bottom up.”
U-S Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm says the hub in Calcasieu Parish called Project Cypress will capture more than one million metric tons of existing CO2 from the atmosphere each year…
“Which is essentially a giant vacuum that can suck decades of old carbon pollution straight out of the sky. And once we harness that pollution, we can trap it permanently deep underground.”
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