March 14, 2025 - The David Knight Show
07:40
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| South Dakota land grab that is there uh This was the plan by Summit Carbon Solutions, a $9 billion, 2,500-mile-long pipeline project. | |
| And the guy who was the CEO of that goes to Trump in Mar-a-Lago, and they bring in the governors of South Dakota and North Dakota, Kristi Noem, who's now in the Trump administration. | |
| The Department of Homeland Security, and then Doug Burgum, who has stayed on these land issues, because he's going to be a participant in this as well. | |
| He's a multi-billionaire. | |
| He was the governor of North Dakota. | |
| So the two governors, Republicans, go to Trump, along with this summit CEO of this massive pipeline. | |
| The idea is that they're going to capture CO2 and power generation and other places like that, ship it across the country, pump it into the ground. | |
| And, of course, there's other issues about that. | |
| You know, why are they pumping it into the ground? | |
| What is going to happen with that? | |
| But this particular aspect, I mean, it's just rotten in every aspect. | |
| It's blatant crony corruption with Trump and these Republican governors who are now in his administration. | |
| But part of what was going to make this pipeline work, which makes all the pipelines work, you know, we had the Keystone pipeline shut down, the second one shut down as soon as Biden became president on day one, he shut it down. | |
| I think that pipeline is a good thing. | |
| However, I didn't like the fact that eminent domain was given to a corporation to condemn property. | |
| And not only that, but it was even a foreign corporation. | |
| It was a Canadian corporation that had the ability to go in and condemn property, eminent domain. | |
| So I opposed that aspect of it. | |
| I was in favor of the pipeline in general to come from Canada, but not for them to be able to take people's land. | |
| Same situation here. | |
| And so the Republican South Dakota Governor Larry Rodin signed a bill yesterday banning the use of eminent domain for carbon dioxide pipelines. | |
| The bill prohibits a government seizure of land for CO2 pipelines. | |
| This leaves the fate of the Summit Carbon Solutions' $9 billion, 2,500-mile pipeline project hanging in the air like it was methane gas or something. | |
| Because it certainly did stink. | |
| Anyway, as South Dakota was a key player in the plan, Summit's pipeline was to transport captured CO2 from five Midwest states to an underground storage spot in South Dakota. | |
| which has been referred to as the world's largest carbon capture project. | |
| No, it's a crony corruption project, is what it is. | |
| South Dakota landowners feel strongly that the threat of involuntary easements for the proposed carbon dioxide pipeline infringes on their freedoms and their property rights, said the South Carolina governor. | |
| So, in a sense, Trump did them a favor by getting Kristi Noem out of there. | |
| And putting in somebody else who has not bought into that crony corruption. | |
| At least not yet. | |
| He says, here's my open message to Summit Carbon or anyone else who wants to try to come to abuse our fellow South Dakotans, said the South Dakota House Speaker. | |
| He said, your Green New Deal boondoggle, your lawsuits, your threats, your intimidation against our people, against our counties, against our grassroots commissioners, are not welcome here, he says, in all uppercase. | |
| Yeah, go to Mar-a-Lago's. | |
| Welcome there. | |
| This guy better watch out, because when the CEO of Summit gets on the phone and calls up his employee, Trump, things could change pretty quickly. | |
| A Summit spokesperson said, It's very unfortunate that despite our approvals in Iowa, North Dakota, and Minnesota, South Dakota changed the rules in the middle of the game. | |
| You know what? | |
| It's not a game. | |
| And the rules ought to be that you respect private property. | |
| That's always been the rules that we have hopefully cherished. | |
| That's a rule you need to abide by. | |
| And people need to fight back against the idea that these private corporations can use eminent domain. | |
| It was bad enough when you had the, was it Kelso thing up in Connecticut, where you had a local government condemned some property. | |
| So it could be used by a corporation. | |
| You know, not so they could build a road or something like that that's supposedly for the use of the community. | |
| No, for the benefit of a corporation. | |
| And Kelo, I think it was, maybe. | |
| I knew a Kelso. | |
| I think it's Kelo. | |
| Anyway, unfortunately, the Supreme Court. | |
| Agreed that that was okay. | |
| So what do they do? | |
| They take it to the next step. | |
| It's not just that they're going to have the city do the condemnation. | |
| Now they're going to let these massive pipeline places just go through and willy-nilly destroy farms that have been in a family for 150 years in many cases. | |
| Whether it's an oil pipeline or whether it's a CO2 pipeline. | |
| same thing so the steve malloy who i've interviewed multiple times steve malloy was the one who discovered all that scam of hooking people up and exposing them to fine particulate matter that was 72 times what the epa said was safe so they could make a case to ban anything that burned anything Fireplaces, barbecue grills, you name it. | |
| That was at the EPA in Research Triangle Park in North Carolina. | |
| Steve Malloy is now a senior fellow at E&E Legal. | |
| Energy and Environment Legal said this is definitely a win for the little guy. | |
| Carbon capture is economically, politically, and physically impossible. | |
| He said it is totally bogus. | |
| It is the only reason it's happening is because oil companies can get taxpayer subsidies for it. | |
| He pointed out how carbon capture's expensive price tag, the unpopularity of eminent domain and underground storage issues, makes it an extraordinarily difficult practice. | |
| He also noted that the government can only seize land for public use. | |
| And that there is no legitimate public use for CO2 pipelines. | |
| He also referenced both the Mississippi CO2 pipeline rupture as well as the Lake Nyos disaster in Cameroon in 1986 that both destroyed land and livestock. | |
| The Cameroon pipeline explosions even left 1,700 people dead. | |
| But, of course, they just look at us as their livestock, don't they? | |
| Yeah, killed 10 million chickens, 1,700 people, I don't care. | |
| So he says, so this is good for South Dakota. | |
| It's good for all of us to, and again, what happened with this? | |
| This is where our hope lies, at the local level. | |
| That's right, boys and girls. | |
| There's a post-election sale on silver and gold. | |
| Trump euphoria has caused a dip in silver and gold. | |
| It's time to buy some medals with fiat dollars before they come to their sense is. | |
| Go to davidknight.gold to get in touch with the wise wolf himself, Tony Arterburn. |
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