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"Per-tonne fee + long-term stewardship trust is the institutional answer to 'who's responsible in 200 years.' Nobody else has cracked this; if Oklahoma wants to lead in CCS we need this exact framework."
OK SB 712 Oklahoma Passed both chambers
Oklahoma Carbon Capture and Storage Authority Act
Establishes a state Carbon Capture Authority to regulate Class VI well permitting, pore-space ownership disputes, and long-term liability for stored CO2 in depleted Oklahoma fields.
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"Surface-owner default for pore-space rights is going to dispossess mineral-rights holders who are themselves often farmland descendants. This is taking property from one Oklahoman to give to another, and the bill calls it 'clarification.'"
"Pore-space ownership clarity is overdue. Without SB 712 there is no carbon-capture industry in Oklahoma — we lose the 45Q dollars to Texas and Louisiana. State framework first, federal second."