Hydrogen & Carbon Capture
Blue hydrogen and carbon capture are false climate solutions & economic boondoggles.
Expensive, unproven hydrogen and carbon capture technologies harm communities, cost billions, and do little to reduce climate-warming emissions, research shows.
Photo: John E. Amos coal-fired power plant in Winfield, WV. Wikimedia Commons, 2018.
“Oil and gas executives want our region to invest in costly, unproven blue hydrogen and carbon capture technologies to bail out their industries, which increasingly can’t compete with clean, low-cost alternatives.”
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Statement on the Approval of West Virginia’s Class VI Primacy Application
Abandoned Wells Could Wreak Havoc for Carbon Storage in West Virginia
Tens of thousands of abandoned wells overlay West Virginia’s prospective carbon storage reservoirs, risking leakage.
Is The ARCH2 Hydrogen Hub Coming Apart? Sure Looks Like it.
Development of the ARCH2 hydrogen hub is unraveling due to high costs, uncertain demand, inexperienced project developers, and uneconomic applications.
Carbon Capture: Description, History, Effectiveness, & Cost
An Overview For nearly a century carbon capture technologies have been used by the oil refining industry to separate carbon dioxide (CO2) from other marketable gasses. Then, in the 1970’s oil producers began injecting carbon dioxide into declining oil wells to boost...
Carbon dioxide pipelines: a dangerous part of Appalachia’s proposed carbon capture boondoggle
On a February evening in 2020, a carbon dioxide (CO2) pipeline ruptured near Satartia, Mississippi, causing a plume of CO2 to engulf the community. Within minutes, dozens of residents collapsed in their homes and vehicles. Cars stalled, including emergency vehicles...
What is a hydrogen hub?
In July 2024, the US Department of Energy officially awarded $30 million to the Appalachian Regional Clean Hydrogen Hub, or ARCH2, the first tranche of a total $925 million allocated for its development. The funding announcement marked the first concrete step toward...
Hydrogen 101
Recently, a new form of energy has generated lots of buzz in the Ohio River Valley and across the country: hydrogen. The federal government is pouring billions of dollars into new hydrogen “hubs” that would bring large-scale production to our region and several others...
Tipping Point
Key Takeaways: Carbon capture & sequestration (CCS) is a still unproven and spectacularly expensive decarbonization technology that may have value in industrial sectors that have no other viable decarbonization options. The power generating sector is a very...
The greatest hydrogen risk facing Pennsylvania policymakers
Lately we hear a great deal about hydrogen’s environmental and economic promise. But hydrogen deployment also carries risks, not just for health and safety, but economic risks, including higher prices, taxes, and utility bills along with little potential for job...