CO2 pipeline project stirs safety concerns

Dear Editor:
I am writing as a Hamilton County resident concerned for public safety of its citizens regarding the proposed CO2  sequestration pipeline.
Several Hamilton County residents attended a meeting in York, presented by Trent Loos (20 year agricultural advocate -- radio/podcast host Loos Tales) and Nebraska Sen. Steve Erdman. I came away from that meeting alarmed by the information shared on the proposed carbon sequestration pipeline by Tallgrass.    
This pipeline is already under construction east of York and coming here next. When I talk with neighbors they don’t even know that a carbon pipeline is coming right outside of Aurora and your tax dollars are paying for the tax credit to large corporations through bipartisan Inflation Reduction Act H. R. 5376.
The pipeline close to Aurora will be feeder lines 3-5 ft. underground that connect to a 1982 Trailblazer natural gas line now converted to a carbon pipeline. The end destination of the CO2 is stored indefinitely in a large underground storage facility in southeast Wyoming. Does this sound like a good idea to you?
The Aurora ethanol plant would: 1. Capture the carbon dioxide. 2. Cool it to 80 degrees. 3. Compress the gas to between 1200-2000 psi.  Consider your psi of your automobile tire. What happens in a blowout? Now multiply that to 2000 psi!  How much of our precious water resource will be used to cool to 80 degrees?
Public safety of CO2   pipelines is of grave concern. Already Sen. Erdman reported over 62 accidents of pipeline breaches. ADM in Illinois has quit CO2 sequestration due to pipeline leaks. It’s not if there is a blowout, but when? 
CO2  is more corrosive than natural gas and is 1.5 times the weight of air. 
When first responders in Iowa asked for a plume study they were told “We cannot give out that information due to security reasons.”
In Trent Loos’ three years of research on CO2   pipelines, a natural gas expert shared that when a blowout happens there could be up to a five-mile kill zone.
Our US military has called compressed CO2  -- A weapon of mass destruction.
Do we want a weapon of mass destruction 3-5 ft. underground in Hamilton County?
CO2 when not compressed is actually a valuable commodity and doesn’t need to be buried! If you go back to your science classes, our plants need CO2 to grow and we need it to survive.  Greenhouses, carbonated beverages, dry ice, euthanize turkeys, chickens and pigs, oil and gas industry, blasting coal seam just to name a few.
There are safer alternatives to reduce the carbon intensity scores that the ethanol plants are trying to meet to satisfy California mandates to sell ethanol to them.   
Please reach out to me on messenger if you would like more information and/or would like to help to bring this public safety concern to the Hamilton County zoning board for a zoning ordinance against and the Hamilton County commissioners for a resolution against. 
Debbie Sorensen,
Phillips