Political Quotes

“Madam President, one thing I want to talk about, as we are talking about carbon utilization--and Joe did a great job of talking about new technologies. Frequently when I talk about this topic people say: There is no such thing as clean coal. Coal cannot be a clean energy source. And I say: That is not true. I tell them about my personal experience with the largest carbon sequestration storage program in the country, up until some of the new developments, and that was Dakota Gas. I served on the board of directors of Dakota Gas, and, ironically, the carbon capture and transmission into an oil field was not done to respond to concerns globally about carbon; it was done to produce a salable and lucrative byproduct--CO<INF>2</INF>--which can be used in the oil fields. The one point I want to make is that a lot of the new development in exploration and in production of oil is done in tight formations, shale formations. This is not a technology, CO<INF>2</INF> flooding isn't a technology that has been widely used in tight formations because we haven't figured out how to do it. I want to acknowledge one of those great American corporations, Occidental Petroleum, for doing something they call huff and puff, where they inject the CO<INF>2</INF>. They basically let that sit in the well and then eventually recharge the well. They are seeing excellent results in using this as an enhanced oil recovery method. We are very excited about the bipartisan group.…”