A carbon sequestration pilot project bill that could have impacted farmer property rights has been defeated by the Indiana House.
Jeff Cummins is the associate policy director of Indiana Farm Bureau.
“Senate Bill 265 was defeated on the House Floor with 53 no votes and 43 yes votes,” he says.
He tells Brownfield amendment language was offered to help protect property rights.
“We had offered amendment language to define pore space and retain it to the owner of a surface estate, require negotiation for the lease or sale of that pore space from the landowner to the company, limit duration of the pilot project, and limit the number of wells that the company could put in all to no avail,” he says.
