Opinion submitted by a Journal reader
Save My Louisiana (SML) has been called “radicals” by the CCS industry and CCS-supporting politicians. But is that true? Are the people who make up SML the radicals? Let’s examine who the “radicals” really are.
The CCS industry finds its beginnings in the radical ideology of climate change. Climate change is a political ideology masquerading as a response to a manufactured environmental emergency. The theory claims that the earth’s temperature is warming at an accelerated rate due to man-made greenhouse gases. The most offending greenhouse gas is man-made carbon dioxide (CO2) which is a byproduct of burning hydrocarbons such as fossil fuels. The claim is that these CO2 emissions have reached such dangerous levels that, unless we either reduce or eliminate the emissions through “renewable alternatives” or “sequestration”, life on the planet will end. For historical context, this claim has been around since the 70s with numerous predictions of impending doom. Fifty years later, we’re still here. But the policies driven by the radical climate change agenda have destroyed actual environmental ecosystems and multiple economies.
CCS operations is a vital part of the climate change hoax. This is not an unfounded accusation, the industry itself tells us that it is capturing and storing CO2 in order to “reduce greenhouse gas emissions”. “Reducing greenhouse gas emissions” is THE stated agenda of the climate change hoax.
So I ask you, who are the actual radicals? Are the radicals the people of SML who discovered that the Legislature gave the power of eminent domain to private CCS companies in order to take surface and subsurface property rights to achieve the stated climate change goals? Are the radicals SML who filed a suit challenging the unconstitutionality of these laws that have empowered the radical climate change agenda with the force of law while undermining your right to “own and control” your property as secured in our state constitution (Article 1, Sec 4(A))? No, the real radicals are those who have pushed and continue to support the radical climate change agenda hoax on Louisianaianas through the force of perverted law.
The real radicals in this story are the Legislators of Louisiana who for five years created law after law enabling and empowering the radical climate change agenda. Forcing an environment killing and economy crushing agenda down our throats using the force of law. Your legislature passed into law, RS:1102(A)(1) declaring that, “geological storage of carbon dioxide will benefit the citizens of the state and the state’s environment by reducing greenhouse gas emissions.” As noted above, this is THE stated agenda of the radical climate change agenda hoax.
Men like state representatives Mike Johnson, Bret Geymann, Chuck Owens and quite literally the entire legislature started passing these laws years ago and have piled more laws on the books to strengthen them. Mike Johnson and Chuck Owens voted FOR Act 61 which became law RS:1108(A)(1) subverting our constitutionally guaranteed property rights to the private CCS industry. “Any storage operator is herby authorized the power of eminent domain and expropriate needed property to acquire surface and subsurface rights and property…”.
Only after SML called them out on their advocacy by and through the force of perverted law to enable the radical climate change agenda did they suddenly start claiming to be concerned about property rights. Mike Johnson was quoted a few days ago discussing his commitment to private property rights, a commitment he evidently has recently discovered since he obviously wasn’t too bothered about property rights when he voted FOR Act 61 in 2020 which stripped you of your property rights for the climate change agenda!
Mike Johnson and his group of climate radicals are the arsonists, not the firemen! Their repeated passing of laws over multiple years to empower the climate change agenda is the irrefutable proof that they are the radicals. Real “conservatives” ferociously guard the basic rights of LIFE, LIBERTY and PROPERTY. Conservatives like SML who have taken concrete action to STOP the destruction of these basic rights. Real conservatives do not betray these rights by perverting law. These men ENABLED the radical climate change hoax by empowering it with eminent domain authority to take your property and in so doing, take your independence.
Now, Mike Johnson has filed HB 7 which he says will extinguish the inferno he created but there is some very questionable language in that bill that looks rather deceptive. We’re going to point out the problems we see with HB 7 just like we pointed out their egregious mistakes of Act 61. Let’s see what they do.
So I ask you, who are the radicals? The organization SML which is suing to strike down laws that undermine your constitutional right to property? Or the legislators like Mike Johnson, Brett Geymann, and Chuck Owen who created laws which legalized the radical climate change agenda hoax against you?
The LA Constitution and all laws (Revised Statutes) are found at https://legis.la.gov/legis/
Col(r) Mark T. Guillory