The Advocate’s Sept. 29 opinion supporting carbon capture makes an important point about how Louisiana’s industries can evolve in a safe, proven way that will improve the environment, boost the economy and provide long-term growth for employers and landowners.

Carbon capture has drawn sharp pushback in several parishes already, with at least one placing a one-year moratorium to give people and policymakers time to understand the specifics of the industry.

“Louisiana has the perfect mix of geology and a concentrated industrial base, the main reasons my company is investing here. I believe so strongly in the potential of carbon capture that I left the oil and gas industry and founded a company to apply the expertise we have with underground geology to the task of taking carbon out of the environment and putting it back where we found it.”

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