SIMON: But people in Satartia fear that, three years since the incident in their town, America still has a lot to learn about carbon dioxide pipeline risks. JESSE ARENIVAS: The market is going to be exponential. Jesse Arenivas is CEO of the pipeline company EnLink. You need to send it to a spot underground with the right geology, which can be far away - so pipelines. But when you suck up carbon dioxide, you often can't store it in the same place you trap it. That's the idea of sucking up carbon dioxide from industry and power plants and storing it underground before it heats the planet. climate goals, and they see lots of carbon capture in the country's future.
SIMON: Jesse Jenkins is a professor at Princeton. JESSE JENKINS: It's on the order of 100,000 km of CO2 pipelines. But given the country's climate solution priorities, that number is set to climb. only has about 8,000 km of these carbon dioxide pipelines. SIMON: Little did she know, the men were just down the road in the Cadillac, unconscious, victims of a mass poisoning from a carbon dioxide pipeline rupture that sent 45 people to the hospital. They - 10 minutes - I knew they would have been here in five minutes, but they didn't come.
SIMON: She got the kids inside, and she waited for her sons and nephew. THELMA BROWN: Brae called me, and he was, like, frantic.īROWN: The kids was outside playing, and I had the baby in the house.
I said, Mom, this pipeline blew up down here. And as we were coming back down the road, first we heard it, then we saw it.īURNS: A big old cloud of just - gas just came up out of the ground.īURNS: And I called my mom. On a Saturday night three years ago, Burns was heading home from a fishing trip in a red Cadillac with his brother and his cousin.īURNS: We went fishing and had a nice time. SIMON: Deemmeris Debra'e Burns showed me the spot on a rural road that changed his life - an experience he thinks is a warning for America. NPR's Julia Simon reports from Satartia, Miss., on the questions about the safety of those pipelines.ĭEEMMERIS DEBRA'E BURNS: This is Perry Creek Road right here. It involves trapping carbon dioxide before it leaves smokestacks, then building new pipelines to store it underground. First, though, to Mississippi, where there's a big push for a possible climate solution.
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