Carbon sequestration has been a hot topic within the Illinois Farm Bureau. At the December meeting, following an in-depth discussion, the Farm Bureau stood behind pipelines in their resolutions book and Warren-Henderson Farm Bureau President Jake Armstrong reports some of the main points:
“So the big thing is we have to get this private property right correct; how the government gets the land to do these utilities. Eminent domain is not on the Farm Bureau’s table. How are we fairly compensating not only land owners, but farmers who are losing those crops? Are we affecting any sort of drainage, that is the big thing, and if we are how are we correcting that. There are a lot of issues to it, but overall we stand in support of it because in the world we live in, we have to be carbon neutral. We have to have everything quote on quote environmental and if ethanol is going to be a fuel that stays around, we need to have this technology at our ethanol plants so they can be quote on quote carbon neutral and stick around for the next 50 years or they will get by the wayside.”
