Talking Points

The bill allows concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs) as locations where methane could be captured by pipelines as gas. Gas companies will propose connector pipelines to reach site(s) closest to their existing lines. Since the CAFO could profit from the purchase of the gas, the bill incentivizes the production of methane. It further incentivises CAFOs’ horrendous management of waste lagoons that leach animal effluent from unlined ponds into rivers, streams, and groundwater and negatively impact nearby environmental justice communities. This is the purposeful development of methane to feed gas pipelines.

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